doghouse814
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My daughter attends college in a nearby town and moved into a rental house with two other roomies last June. The beginning of August she started having visitations from bats! When I contacted the local health department looking for some answers, they advised that my daughter should go to a clinic and be checked out for rabies exposure and received the rabies vaccine as a prophylaxis to the possibility of being bit by a rabid bat! A housing inspector came and checked out her apartment and made notes and contacted the landlord to have them address some areas to try to curb the bat infestation. Well... the landlord made minimal effort in getting rid of the bats and they are still living inside the walls and attic space. They are still having bat visitations. Do these girls have any legal recourse? Can they get out of their lease? Which isn't up until the end of May 2008... The other thing is that the landlord plays on these young and naive kids and required them to write their monthly rent checks ahead of time and 'post date' them for the first of each month! Also, my insurance did pay for the rabies vaccines but I think the landlord should be responsible for that too... at the very least the $30 copayment that has to come out of my pocket. Appreciate the guidance... Candas