This isn't necessary for a good basement conversion.Full kitchen or kitchenetteIf you live in a single family zoning you cannot legally have two stoves.

You can live in the basement of your own unit, especially in Jersey City, but you should not have a stove down there.

The bait stations need to be put in areas of activity (under sinks, behind stoves, crawl spaces, attics, and behind refrigerators).I have cleaned out properties many times with these methods.

Worst of all the fridge and stove both looked like older 1970 models that were found and picked up from a alley cleaned up and painted, I'm not kidding the stove had a material that felt rough like some kind of bondo that was used to cover some dents and they didnt even bother sanding it down and then painted over with white paint.

I should add this is not a countertop microwave it’s one that requires wiring into existing electrical and mounted under a cabinet over the stove.

I worry about the stove in the corner too.

What real estate markets are still on the mend?

I use GE over the stove microwaves.

So they need the stove to be removed from the unit and the gas to be capped to not count it.

I know a loss of $18K+ is hard to recover from and the emotional wounds are real and also hard to mend.