Keeping Apartment Buildings Free of Pest Hazards
Pests can be a source of every kind of havoc in an apartment building and residential property managers without the right prevention strategies can quickly find themselves overrun with four, six, and eight-legged problems.
When you manage large apartment buildings, it doesn’t matter how many tenants you have, there are always plenty of vacancies for pests to call home. From one season to the next, property managers can find themselves struggling to evict everything from insects to geese, to squirrels and raccoons.
Each variety of pest brings its own unique form of headache, from fire risks to biohazards. And while professional pest and animal control services have tools and techniques for evicting them, at Rusty’s Animal Control, we would rather help you keep them out in the first place.
The Threat of Unaddressed Entry Points
Unfortunately for many residential property managers, apartment buildings often come under management already at risk, with numerous unaddressed entry points and pest squatters who have taken advantage of them. A gap or a crack, a missing vent cover, open roof vents or soffits, or damaged siding or foundations – are all invitations to animal and insect pests, especially as winter approaches. Squirrels and raccoons don’t wait for an invitation to set up house and begin chewing wiring, wood and insulation, which brings higher energy costs and the risk of fire. Animal waste is also a source of transmittable disease and illness including salmonella, leptospirosis and roundworms.
Getting to Know Your Uninvited Occupants
Effective pest control begins with a thorough understanding of the who, what, where, when and how of pest and wildlife intrusion. Who’s looking to colonize your building and what are they looking for? Where and when are they likely to gain access and how will they attempt to get in?
When you have the answers, you have the beginnings of an effective exclusion strategy. When the temperatures drop, many different creatures will size up your building as a potential place to get out of the cold and reproduce. They’ll be scouting for easy access, preferably in a dark and sheltered area. Leave them a way in and they’ll find it.
Food sources are also a potential draw, as are materials they can use to build a nest. Everything from old wood to ceiling insulation may do, depending on the species.
The Best Defense is a Professional Defense
A professional, comprehensive, and customized defense strategy implemented by the pest and animal control experts at Rusty’s Animal Control can get help you take your buildings back from the wild and keep them that way.
We start every engagement with a thorough assessment and consultation followed by removal, repair and prevention – including the installation of exclusion devices and structures where appropriate.
We don’t just rid your property of pests; our goal is to prevent them from coming back.
Learn more about our support for residential property managers by contacting a member of our team.
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