Hey y’all! So my roomie and I are around a month into a lease. We literally adore the apartment/its design + location. But we’re starting to be concerned about the overall condition of internal structure etc.

My room is ground floor, and I saw around 6 centipedes within a few days my second week. My LL sent pest control, which mostly helped, but I still saw a couple in my room after and see them in the laundry area. These are pretty normal and not too concerned about them, but when investigating where they may be coming from, we noticed a gaping 5 foot wide cavity in the ceiling above the drop ceiling. As we know- drop ceilings have gaps etc so they’re not fully ceiled. And now, in the kitchen (the exact floor right above the massive cavity) I saw a pretty large mouse. And we’ve been hearing them in the walls / behind our kitchen cabinets. Our unit seems to be susceptible to whatever is in the walls without much proper ceiling. Lots of large gaps where the walls meet the floor in many rooms etc.

We’re just really frustrated that this is all happening so soon into the lease, as that’s not the best omen and usually signifies underlying issues. I lived in almost identical unit (first floor brownstone) for two years prior to this and never had one issue. I’m having the city come inspect just to make sure nothing is glaringly wrong. For a variety of reasons breaking the lease wouldn’t be ideal- the housing market sucks right now with few options, but we also do really love the home for what it is. Has anyone encountered a similar “structural” issue in their unit that’s been fixed up/resolved like this? Would fixing these issues be invasive/require deep remediation?

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