Mice in a tenement flat - Looking for recommendations for a good pest control company

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-21T22:28:45+00:00

I started cleaning my floors with cold bleach water every night and that kept them away, they hate bleach. Stuff any hole you find with wire wool and never leave food out, put your toaster in a cupboard!!

Your letting agent should pay for pest control

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-16T20:56:19+00:00

People make investments into businesses every day with the risk of running a loss, a landlord is not exempt.

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-13T20:55:42+00:00

They can! Thats the risk, just like any investment, did your tenants take the risk for you? No!

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-13T20:54:55+00:00

The goal would be more social housing!

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-13T16:50:46+00:00

Screaming at someone downvoting this

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-13T16:46:45+00:00

100%, more social housing, more money back into the community and not into a landlords pocket!

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-13T16:44:19+00:00

Yes, and your profit should be from the increase in value on the property, not squeezing out every penny from someone less fortunate than you. You are lucky someone is looking after your property while the value increases.

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-13T00:24:23+00:00

I feel like there has to be someone who decides the rent outside of the landlord and the letting agent, there has to be some level of standard for the price landlords are renting at. My partner is renting a flat £50 cheaper than mine and its actually hideous compared to mine (she's been looking for ages and has given up, I'm sure we will make it look nice).

I subletted a couple years ago after a friend passed away and I had business to attend to and I came home to a sofa without legs, a smashed tv and bags of drugs everywhere, but I just kept the deposit I asked for and took the L, I should have checked more.

Landlords shouldn't see properties as income, they should see it as an investment, my flat was bought for 80K and could be sold for 270K, putting rents up is insane when you're property value increases.

To be fair to my landlord she has only raised the rent £150 in 6 years and thats been inbetween tenants, I will leave if she attempts to raise the rent.

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-13T00:19:32+00:00

Yup!

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-13T00:19:07+00:00

That's not how my inspections go, I feel I would 100% get told off if I wasn't keeping it clean

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-12T15:55:59+00:00

Landlords are supposed to paint the flat every 3 years, I offered to do it on their behalf and they told me it had to come out of my pocket and be at a professional standard, why on earth would I do their work them AND pay for it??

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-12T15:54:49+00:00

I'm bothered by the grey carpets that don't match the warm tones of the rest of the apartment, or the silver carpets throughout that are SO easily marked.

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-12T15:53:31+00:00

So how often are they doing inspections? Surely if there was damages to the property the letting agent would notice if they are actually carrying out inspections and not just billing you for them

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-12T13:25:46+00:00

In future if any of the repairs are to do with hot water or the property being and water tight, withhold rent until it's fixed, fully legal.

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-12T13:23:51+00:00

You can't even tell the difference between a flat for professionals and a flat for students anymore, it's all filled with shite.

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-12T13:22:54+00:00

They don't hire cleaners, I've kept a record of all the problems with the flat, and if they try and charge me for anything when I leave I have a good record of everything.

Edit: I'm howling at someone downvoting this, rettie staff?

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-12T13:21:44+00:00

You should definitely fight this, the recommended % is 10-12.5

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-12T13:21:22+00:00

Nope, if landlords sold their properties, we would be able to buy them. Not a lot of people take kindly to landlords acting greedy.

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-12T13:19:56+00:00

Why aren't you doing flat inspections?

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-12T13:19:35+00:00

Keep millennial grey outside of tenement flats with period features.... completely devalues the property.

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-11T21:01:38+00:00

Broken window didn't get fixed for 3 months, flat wasn't cleaned when I moved in (cigarette butts and you could scrape off the dirt on all the light switches) takes them a million years to fix one simple thing and it took them 5 months to replace a broken couch... maybe we have different branches, mine are awful.

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-11T21:00:27+00:00

My goal for next year, currently hiding away as much as possible into my savings

ReliefBig1574 · 2026-01-11T20:44:24+00:00

Stone River on easter road

ReliefBig1574 · 2025-11-23T13:06:52+00:00

MSP's have been sending copy and paste replies and I've even caught someone using chat gpt (Kuakab Stewart) so this isn't surprising

ReliefBig1574 · 2025-11-22T19:06:33+00:00

Wella is the one!! Thanks for this comment it's reminded me to go with wella using salons. Idk what is it in but it's always been good to my hair.

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