Right now that's too much hassle for me, I'm satisfied with what I'm obtaining, but it will become a focus (after I've done the 500 other things ahead of that on my priority list).  

My maintenance guy knew the apartment was empty and went ahead and changed the locks to get the new key on the master system but left the door unlocked incase anyone came back.

They scheduled exterminators without me knowing and went ahead with estimates.

If it's more than 15 years old - or you've had some big work done to it - I'd go ahead and have them cleaned.

The assessor may still have the assessment books for that year in his or her possession and can go ahead and change an incorrect assessment if presented with compelling evidence.

(We passed the annual inspection for her house about 2 months ago, it's a superb property with absolutely nothing wrong with it, the mice simply prefer to move indoors when the weather turns cold)As a policy we have placed bait-blocks for tenants behind the fridge/stove and in the basement for free, we even place them annually as part of our Fall Inspection where we check the home and most importantly the furnace.Bet you can't guess that when we didn't show up at her house on Saturday or Sunday she kept up the frantic voicemails to our company system...and the best part is when we showed up with bait blocks on Monday (our next scheduled work day for the crew AND WAAAAYYYY ahead of the 14 day timeline we allow for non-emergency repairs) the tenant refused bait blocks in the home since she has children in the home (who access the back of the refrigerator and stove I guess, no basement in this house).I'd like to assemble a list of what LaPlante does NOT handle, so we can direct tenants to that section when they ring our phones...

Don't look back - look ahead !

Even if it took another month I would have been ahead and much further away from requiring a coronary surgeon. 

I'm going to throw my opinion and real life observations out there, please consider it my view of the world as it is, not as I want it to be...15-20 years ago the easiest way to get ahead of the gentrification curve was to follow the artists and homosexual couples into the less desirable neighborhoods.  

I'll go ahead and make some keyword alerts go off.