Rental pest control

Regardless of whether you are landlord or tenant, as both people who have a shared interest in the property remaining in good physical condition and pest-free, you don’t want to find yourself stuck with pests and with nowhere to turn. This could see you needing one of our popular services such as bedbug removal services, flea removal services and wasp nest removal. Luckily with Direct Pest, we will always have pest control experts at hand and ready and waiting to come and get the pests gone and prevented from returning.

Our solutions for rental pest control ensures that both parties are always happy, as the tenant by getting your living space back to normal and without interruption, and for the landlord whose valuable asset has been protected and preserved for being continually successful. As a landlord, if a property has a pest problem before the tenant moves in then it is your legal obligation to provide rental pest control so that they can enjoy your property that they have paid rent for.

As a tenant, if you develop a pest infestation during the tenancy then the majority of the time it is your responsibility to rectify the situation so that you can have a peaceful space to live in once again. However, sometimes the landlord will have included a clause that states they will cover the financial cost of any rental pest control you may require so it is always worth checking your tenancy agreement.

The short term issues if your rented property is infested with pests

The short-term effects of a pest infestation will typically always be felt far more by the tenant than by the landlord. As the tenant is the one who will directly have to suffer from a pest problem it is their day-to-day life that comes under attack from troublesome pests. This can include effects felt on aspects of daily life such as damage to parts of the property or personal belongings, loss of food that will need replacing, or a pest infestation that can also render certain areas of a property unusable if their numbers are great enough. Any of these things happening will definitely inconvenience the tenant and provide a negative experience of living in that property for them.

Similarly, if the pest infestation was present in the property when the tenant moved in, if nothing were done about it immediately then it is possible that the tenant may file for loss of rent paid for services not rendered and this could end up costing you far less than the rental pest control would have. As a tenant, you want to be assured that you are getting what you pay for and if there are pests creeping and crawling their way across your food then you will definitely end up feeling short-changed.

The long term issues if your rented property is infested with pests

When it comes to the long-term effects of there being pests within your rental property these will be felt by both the landlord and the tenant. As a pest infestation will grow in size as the initial pests who were able to gain entry to your property begin to breed this increases the scale of the overall problem. Through growth in numbers, it is likely that the pests will spread to other areas of the property and will cause damage everywhere they go. This can lead to expensive repairs for the landlord and potentially irreparable damage to irreplaceable personal belongings.

If this were the case then it would incur a negative perspective from the tenant who if they feel forced to move due to the pest problem could then advise others not to use the property or landlord either. As the landlord, this could be greatly damaging to professional reputation and seriously affect future earnings from rented properties. Any possible illnesses that the pests carry with them could also be highly risky to the health of the tenant, the landlord when viewing the property or anyone else either in the building or in the vicinity.

Dealing with Rental Pest Control yourself

It doesn’t matter whether you are the landlord, the tenant, or anyone else for that matter it is never advisable to attempt to handle the rental pest control and pest removal required to get these scuttling nuisances out of your property. Pests will have many different ways of entering into properties that will typically include hard to reach spots and can be physically dangerous to attempt to reach such as guttering and roof spaces or within cavity walls and attics.

On top of this if you were removing multiple pests then they could attack out of fear which could cause you substantial damage and may even lead to ongoing health issues as a result. Thankfully, solving these sorts of problems with services like anti-viral cleaning and drain camera surveys are easy-peasy with us. Therefore, making use of Direct Pest and our highly qualified pest control experts who have all the right gear and know exactly what makes pests tic, this way they can get them out in a flash and have you back to normal before you know it.