Ants and Tenant Law

[beinneighe.livejournal.com]

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.

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[bobobb.livejournal.com]

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.

[beinneighe.livejournal.com]

Last year, my landlord begrudgingly half-assedly addressed it, but not until I spent two nights elsewhere because it was that bad. By the time he got around to it, it was mostly resolved. Thanks for the advice--with this particular landlord, recordkeeping is crucial :)