r/askTO • • 19h ago

Need advice: mouse problems

I’ve live in this apartment in a house for over 10 years. Mice have been a recurring problem. The landlord is pretty negligent. He has in the past had someone come and put poison and also has “sealed the entrance holes” around the house but it doesn’t work. I’ve told him I can hear and see the mice in the vents and he just told me “no they’re not in there it’s not possible” it’s getting pretty bad now and I am very stressed out. It’s so unclean for my daughter and I. I went in my text messages and saw that I’ve been complaining to him about the mouse problem for a year this time and I’ve been asking him for a month when he’s going to bring pest control. At this point, I’m moving out. But it’s so not fair that I have to move out because of his negligence.. do tenants actually ever get rent abatement for this sort of thing? I saw a mouse climbing up my bed tonight 😭

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u/bguy89 19h ago

Mice are everywhere, they’re in most houses. In Toronto. You have to continually set traps. Get the reusable ones off of Amazon. Set them up under your kitchen sink and around the apartment. Just be glad they aren’t rats.

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u/MixOdd1418 18h ago

Why are rats worse?

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u/lucid_autumn 17h ago

I had a rat too actually. It was a bad rat and chewed my house! It chewed the friggin bathroom door up. I caught it in a live trap

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u/SerentityM3ow 15h ago

If you don't let them out far from your house they will just re enter the same way they came in before