Landlords only use glue traps for pest problems
Housing management often refuses to take effective action against pests, relying instead on minimal measures like glue traps or unnamed substances left without instructions. This leaves residents dealing with unaddressed infestations while lacking crucial information about what treatments are being used.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1submitting additional maintenance requests
- 2trying to find the source of the insects independently
- 3Having an exterminator inspect the substance
- 4Confronting the landlord about legal compliance
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My landlords dad came by for our pest problem and gave us this. He told us to put it on a plate in our attic but he didn't tell us the name or what it does.”source ↗
“I'm in CT and I do believe they changed the laws regarding raticides on January 1st but I dont know what this is to know what its active ingredients are.”source ↗
Where this came up
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