End of Lease Pest Control Treatment
This is known by a number of names. These include end of lease pest control treatment, pet fumigation, vacate flea treatment, and also pet bond sprays.
Flea treatments
Fleas can live up to nine months with out food and can remain dormant for a long time after your pets have left the rental.
Fleas and their eggs can also be found living in the sandy areas of the garden where your pets like to hang out. They can find their way into the house and will live happily in the cracks in your floor boards and in the gaps under your skirting boards. Fleas will also make home in carpets and other soft furnishings such as curtains and sofa cushions.
Pet Fumigations
It is a condition of most leases that where pets are allowed on the property tenants are required to organise a profesional flea treatment when they move out.
Vacate Flea Treatments
The Residential Tenancies Act WA states: That the lessor shall ensure that the Rental Property at the commencement of the tenancy is clean and fit to live in.
The LESSOR IS RESPONSIBLE for general pest control treatments unless otherwise stated in the lease agreement. These include pest treatments for:
- Ants
- Cockroaches
- Fleas
- Silverfish
- Spiders
- Rats and Mice
The TENANT IS RESPONSIBLE for having a pest treatment at the end of their lease.
- Where the tenants have allowed animals on the premises (pet bond).
- Where they have allowed pest infestations to take over the property.
Pest infestations include rodent issues, cockroach problems, and bed bugs.
If your animals have been kept outside you are still required to complete an end-of-lease pest control treatment.
Even if pets have only been in your rental for a short stay end-of-lease fumigation still needs to be done. Property managers will need a certificate of treatment or an invoice to say that the fumigation treatment has been done.