http://beinneighe.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] beinneighe.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2014-04-12 12:16 pm
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Ants and Tenant Law

As ant season is starting up, I wanted to get a head start and ask: Does anyone know anything about tenant law when it comes to being overridden by carpenter ants? I'm not actually foreseeing any problems this year, but it seems like a good thing to know and would've been useful in previous years.

[identity profile] bobobb.livejournal.com 2014-04-12 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure about tenant laws, though this would probably fall under "pests". Carpenter ants can be really bad for the property, so I'm surprised that your landlord would let it go. Did you try to get it resolved last year and your landlord ignored it? Are you being covered by a management company? If so, the management company could be considered negligent for not letting the owner know about the problem or resolving it. Either way, if you haven't in past, I would start recording everything (e-mails, phone calls, dates, who you talked to, videos of the infestations etc.) when a problem does arise.

[identity profile] pigshitpoet.livejournal.com 2014-04-13 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
ants are tenants too

[identity profile] pigshitpoet.livejournal.com 2014-04-13 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
so it goes..

the landlord has spoken
; )

[identity profile] hahathor.livejournal.com 2014-04-13 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Only if there's more than nine and fewer than eleven of them.

[identity profile] madrigal.livejournal.com 2014-04-13 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
You win the internet.

[identity profile] pigshitpoet.livejournal.com 2014-04-13 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
; )

truly

[identity profile] somerfriend.livejournal.com 2014-04-13 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
I can't cite the law, but you should insist they take care of it. In my experience, it is something that normally is pretty easy to address, unless there is some major source (eg wet wood somewhere). Where do you see them, primarily?

[identity profile] somerfriend.livejournal.com 2014-04-13 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like just a general kitchen attraction, rather than some wet wood somewhere. Spray with the can from Home Depot or Tags inside sink cabinet and along perimeter. Take care if you have pets per product directions. Will ptobably take care of it in a few days. If not a secod treatment or lsndlord calling Best Pest would.

[identity profile] boblothrope.livejournal.com 2014-04-16 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I've heard that it's a bad idea to spray chemicals yourself, since it disperses the ants all over the place and makes it much harder for an exterminator to solve the problem.