Living in some shitty apartments in the last several years, I have have personally experienced all different types of vermin.....
So who is the grand champion pest of all apartments? Let us compare and contrast......
Mice: I have caught about 4-5 mice over the last 4 years. They are usually really small, and they only come out in the winter when we turn on the heat.
Pros: Pretty easy to catch. Mice are some of the least intelligent animals known to man kind. When I would see a mouse I would usually just put down a sticky trap, and I would catch them within a week. They are mostly nocturnal, so I would find them dead in the morning when I would get up for work. Forget those steel mouse traps, they never work, go with sticky paper.
Another good thing about Mice is that they eat some of the bugs.
Cons: They are loud. You can hear them scratching in the walls for about a week until you catch them. They also stink really bad for a day or two when they die inside the walls.
Bed bugs Bedbugs are the new "vermin" of the year. The media has people scared shit over bed bugs. We had one infected mattress about 2 years ago, and after we took care of the problem we haven't seen one bug since.
Pros: Believe it or not, It was really easy for us to contain the problem. You have to, have to, have to, have to enase your mattress. I don't care if you have had them or not. Encase your mattress and you just won 70 percent of the battle against bed bugs. They cannot attack you at night with a properly encased mattress. They sell on amazon for like $45.
The other method is to spray. Buy a gallon jug of the bed bug poison from Home Depot, and spray the hell out of the room. People think bed bugs are impossible to defeat, but we killed them in one week. They like to live in fabric, so always buy leather couches. And they also like rugs, so if you can, pick an apartment with hard wood floors or linoleom.
They actually eradicated bed bugs years ago, but then they got all "hippie" about using the chemicals and bed bugs came back from near extinction. But pretty much if you have a metal bed frame, an encased mattress, leather couches, and hard wood floors, you are in the clear.
Cons: They are very small and they only come out at night, so it is like getting bit my little mosquitos while you sleep. Very annoying.
The Roach: Roaches are also a pain in the ass. Very hard to get rid of, and they are extremely ugly. I usually see them in the spring and summer at night when I go into the bathroom to take a piss. We recently started using boric acid and that got rid of about 50% of the roaches, but every year they return.
Pros: They are almost harmless. You can probably keep them as pets if you wanted to.
Cons: Ugly as hell. Really big cockblockers.
So who wins the competition??
And the winner.........
I would say the bed bugs. They attack the worst because they are small and nocturnal, and if you find them you might have to get rid of some furniture. You can live with roaches and mice without your lifestyle being affected too bad.
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So who is the grand champion pest of all apartments? Let us compare and contrast......
Mice: I have caught about 4-5 mice over the last 4 years. They are usually really small, and they only come out in the winter when we turn on the heat.
Pros: Pretty easy to catch. Mice are some of the least intelligent animals known to man kind. When I would see a mouse I would usually just put down a sticky trap, and I would catch them within a week. They are mostly nocturnal, so I would find them dead in the morning when I would get up for work. Forget those steel mouse traps, they never work, go with sticky paper.
Another good thing about Mice is that they eat some of the bugs.
Cons: They are loud. You can hear them scratching in the walls for about a week until you catch them. They also stink really bad for a day or two when they die inside the walls.
Bed bugs Bedbugs are the new "vermin" of the year. The media has people scared shit over bed bugs. We had one infected mattress about 2 years ago, and after we took care of the problem we haven't seen one bug since.
Pros: Believe it or not, It was really easy for us to contain the problem. You have to, have to, have to, have to enase your mattress. I don't care if you have had them or not. Encase your mattress and you just won 70 percent of the battle against bed bugs. They cannot attack you at night with a properly encased mattress. They sell on amazon for like $45.
The other method is to spray. Buy a gallon jug of the bed bug poison from Home Depot, and spray the hell out of the room. People think bed bugs are impossible to defeat, but we killed them in one week. They like to live in fabric, so always buy leather couches. And they also like rugs, so if you can, pick an apartment with hard wood floors or linoleom.
They actually eradicated bed bugs years ago, but then they got all "hippie" about using the chemicals and bed bugs came back from near extinction. But pretty much if you have a metal bed frame, an encased mattress, leather couches, and hard wood floors, you are in the clear.
Cons: They are very small and they only come out at night, so it is like getting bit my little mosquitos while you sleep. Very annoying.
The Roach: Roaches are also a pain in the ass. Very hard to get rid of, and they are extremely ugly. I usually see them in the spring and summer at night when I go into the bathroom to take a piss. We recently started using boric acid and that got rid of about 50% of the roaches, but every year they return.
Pros: They are almost harmless. You can probably keep them as pets if you wanted to.
Cons: Ugly as hell. Really big cockblockers.
So who wins the competition??
And the winner.........
I would say the bed bugs. They attack the worst because they are small and nocturnal, and if you find them you might have to get rid of some furniture. You can live with roaches and mice without your lifestyle being affected too bad.
Power out!!!!
