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.

Comments

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

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?

[beinneighe.livejournal.com]

The kitchen and the external wall, especially the part of the kitchen with an external wall. I make sure that I keep everything as dry as possible (e.g., no soaking pots) because I've heard that they're attracted to water. I'm on the first floor, so it's possible that there's something rotting in the basement; I never go down there.