Marion –
You sure get all the men going on this site! BTW, you should be nicer to HLS, he’s actually quite charming.

As a woman, I agree rodents are awful! Back in Seattle I had a problem with rats in my shed. I didn’t realize storing bird seed was a rat magnet. One day in early Spring I went into the shed to get some sluggo and a freakin rat jumped out of the container at me – I screamed and ran away as my 5 year old son laughed and thought the little “mouse” was cute.

Anyway, I certainly understand your desire to have the landlord deal with the issue, but unfortunately rodents are a part of life around here. A poster above mentioned that you might want to pick you battles – I would agree with them. Is this what you want to battle your landlord on?

Renting does suck, but so does owning right now 🙂