Rodent Control on the Southside and Baymeadows

Apartment complexes

The Southside is full of garden-style apartment complexes, especially along Baymeadows Road, Southside Boulevard and near the Town Center. Many are two- and three-story wood-frame buildings with long attics running over several units, breezeways and shared dumpster enclosures. Mice move between units through shared walls and attics, and roof rats run the attics.

Renters should report activity to management in writing. Under Florida law, the landlord is usually responsible for rat and mouse extermination in apartment buildings. See apartment rodent control.

Townhomes and condos

The Southside also has many townhome and condo communities, often built around a pond or a pool. Units share walls and sometimes attic space, and mice move between them. If you own a townhome, find out what your association covers. Exterior walls, roofs and common areas are often the association's responsibility, while the inside of the unit is yours. A rodent problem that keeps coming back after you have treated your unit usually needs the association involved, since the source may be next door or in the attic run.

Subdivisions and ponds

Single-family neighborhoods built from the 1970s to the 2000s fill in between the complexes. Most are slab homes with pools and screened enclosures, landscaped with palms and magnolias. Retention ponds sit in the middle of many subdivisions, with tall grass and brush along the banks. Rodents nest in that cover and move into garages and attics.

Office parks around Deerwood and Baymeadows have the same pattern at a larger scale: mulch beds against buildings, ponds and tree lines. Commercial rodent control covers those.

Southside rodent services

• Apartment and Multi-Unit Rodent Control
• Mouse Control
• Commercial Rodent Control
• Rat Control
• All rodent services

Southside and Baymeadows rodent questions