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Originally Posted by stewie

similar question - My neighbors house is a rental house and they've what seems to be a rather large rat problem living in their attic. There's 6 traps in my parents back yard, those black box ones where they go in but can't get out, and there's a new rat in there at least every 2-3 days. We've seen the rats come in and out of their roof through the old soffits, jump down to their deck railing, jump into a giant tree on their property which hangs well into our yard,goes to the top of the fence and from there they jump into my parents apple tree. The tree is kept clean all apples that fall off are picked up that day, but their tree is a gong show...we've even had an arborist come in a month ago to clean shit up which wasn't cheap but still everyday we find them in the yard. They've talked to their landlord but he hasn't done shit all in years. We've tried talking to him in the past but since he doesn't live there (or speak english that well) it's not easy to get it through to him.

With the amount we've killed it's kind of frightening to even estimate how many rats are living in their attic and the damage they're doing inside there.
what steps can we take to solve this peacefully?

Have you checked to see if there's anything the city can do, in terms of talking to the owner?