Pest control on the North Side of Youngstown, 44504, is shaped by Youngstown State University and the housing around it. The blocks around Wick Park and Fifth Avenue have large early 1900s homes, many divided into apartments or rented to students, alongside vacant houses and demolished lots. Student rentals turn over every August, and tenants bring used furniture and mattresses with them, so bed bugs, German cockroaches and mice are the steady calls. The large old houses have full basements on stone foundations, wood porches and third floor attics, which means mice at the sill plate, carpenter ants in the porch roofs and squirrels and bats in the attics.
Pest Control Youngstown OH works with North Side landlords and property managers on unit by unit bed bug and cockroach programs with tenant preparation notices and documentation for the tenant file, and with homeowners on the residential streets north of the campus on rodent exclusion and quarterly service. Move in inspections before an August lease starts catch bed bugs and roaches left by the previous tenant, and treatment between tenants is far easier than treatment around a full apartment. Alexander schedules North Side rental work around lease turnover and inspects the basement of every multi unit building, because that is where the mice and sewer roaches for the whole building come from.
Around North Side
We regularly work near:
- 📍Youngstown State University
- 📍Wick Park
- 📍Stambaugh Auditorium
- 📍Butler Institute of American Art
- 📍Fifth Avenue
- 📍Crandall Park
Pest Control in North Side — Local Notes
- •August lease turnover in student rentals is the main bed bug and roach movement event of the year on the North Side, and move in inspections prevent most of it
- •Large divided homes near Wick Park share one basement and one set of pipe chases, so a roach or mouse problem in one apartment is a building problem
- •Vacant houses on the side streets off Fifth Avenue hold rats and raccoons that move into occupied homes each fall
- •Third floor attics in the older homes are common squirrel and bat entry points at the roofline and gable vents