Isa landlord responsible for mouse extermination?
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Isa landlord responsible for mouse extermination?
Mouse droppings were found.
Asked on January 9, 2012 under Real Estate Law, California
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Under most written leases and state statutes, the landlord is required to make diligent efforts to eradicate vermin such as rodents in the rental occupied by the landlord's tenants at the landlord's costs.
I suggest that you carefully read your presumed written lease in that its terms and conditions control the obligations owed to you by the landlord and vice versa in the absence of conflicting state law. Most likely the lease will have some language as to whose responsibility it is for elimination of rodents. I suspect it will be the landlord's responsibility if mentioned. If not mentioned in the lease, the elimination of the rodents is still the landlord's duty to you.
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