Your apartment location can affect how cockroaches, rats, and mice get in. A New York City exterminator told us the places he'd never live.

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In New York City, cockroaches, rats, and mice are unavoidable. But some places are more infested than others, says a professional exterminator.

, and mice, some apartments are worse off than others, depending on their location in the building, proximity to parks, and age.

My name is Larry Bernhardt. I work for Top Notch Pest Control. I've been an exterminator for about 13 years now. Most pests will reproduce according to food, and, unfortunately, New York is severely overpopulated. So there's an abundance of food and shelter for them to just keep reproducing. You know, ton of rats.A few places I would never want to live is pretty much next to old, multi-unit buildings. So like your pre-war buildings.

So the worst floor to live on would actually be the ground level or first floor. Pests generally start to go from ground up, especially rodents. So you'll get your rat issues and your mouse issues from the ground up. And also with these takeout restaurants, if they are having a pest problem, and one actually has a roach egg in it, and now you're putting it into your cabinet, yes, you know have an infestation of roaches. I think most New Yorkers don't know that a roach egg will typically have 30 to 40 babies in it. So generally somebody sees one roach, they kill it, and they kind of move on with life.

 

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