But, if you don't want to lose your shirt, and maybe other worse pieces of clothing and anything else you own.....learn the laws that regulate your business. 

I forbid mattresses and recommend they store all clothing in water-proof containers.

Just get the wash cloth and soap wet. 

However,  I was at the house yesterday to inspect an issue they had with the furnace and I noticed that in her new washing machine ( that I supplied) she had a bunch of towels, mop heads and cleaning cloths she uses in her commercial business.

My only property, about 8 miles away, I rented to 2 women in their mid 40's.

WOMEN pick the cabin, and they do so by looking at pictures!

I always embed hardware cloth into the hole for good measure before foaming it.If you catch one in a glue board, you can use vegetable oil to free it once outside without harming it.I've always used the snap traps with PB as @Victor S. suggests, but the most important thing is to find their means of access and block that. 

I had a tenant with a dryer that wouldn't dry the clothes (their dryer).

Pay inconvenience fees for food, replacement clothes while we've been displaced, gas money searching for new place, application fees for applying to new apartment buildings, etc.6.

Served the 3-day notice and gave her a list of women's shelters in the area.