Can you avoid rats and mice by living in a high-rise (in NYC)? Like say... the 11th floor and above? -

I m moving to NYC soon (Manhattan, around Midtown or Chelsea) and I want to know if living at the top of a high-rise apartment complex will help me avoid rodents. I know cleanliness helps, but I also know that rodents don t know how clean your home is before they enter. To any NYC-inhabitants reading this, have you ever seen mice or rats in your (or anyone else s) high-rise apartment? Thanks in advance.

Rats and mice can go anywhere. And they hardly exist anyways in NYC. But if u saw one one time u can go buy a rat trap from a store and set it up for the rat/mice. Good luck!

It isn t so much that cleanliness helps. Cleanliness is everything. A rodent will do amazing things to find food. Climbing to the top of a high rise is nothing to them. What they cannot deal with is when you cut off the food supply. Dispose of trash in the proper manner and rodents vanish. Live like a pig and you are sending them an engraved invitation. That s all there is to it. Clean up after yourself and you won t see rodents.

Can you avoid it? No. Rats and mice will go anywhere to seek food and besides, your neighbors may not be as clean as yourself.I have 2 cats (if you are not alergic and your lease says it fine get one) and I also have been using Riddex since 2001 with no problems.http://www.riddexplus.com

Mice and rats travel through walls and pipes and will go anywhere there is food, even at the top of high-rise apartment complexes. They re just less likely to be there than on the lower floors.

Where are there some nice places to camp in Washington State? -

it HAST to have a beach, and it HAST to be sunny.

Well Washington this time of year tends to be rainy but....Woodbe Island is the bomb!! very beautiful!! (i may have spelt it wrong...)

Best time to book hotels: late or early? -

My friend and I are going to NYC on the last week of January. We want to book one room for two nights in a decent priced hotel. Do you recommend booking now or closer to the date for cheaper rooms?

i would say now, just to be save. You don t want to sleep outside over there :)

there are quite a few sites that you can search that will likely show you great hotels at the best prices available. check out the website BookMe and you will be able to compare prices on all the reputable travel sites in just a couple minutes. it s very convenient and will save you a bunch of time and money. Also, make sure you buy them online... otherwise they charge much higher fees for phone orders. good luck.