Where to find a house without mice?

[Anonymous]

We are looking in Bethesda/CC and had three houses inspected. The houses were all built within the past 30 years, but have mice in the basements. Is this a problem for those specific houses (they were not built or maintained well) or a common problem in the area? Do we have to look in newer neighborhoods, such as those in Potomac or even north bethesda, to find a house without mice? Can anyone recommend a close in neighborhood where houses built within the past 30 years usually don't have mice?

[Anonymous]

Just get a good exclusion done. Are those neighborhoods with a lot of new builds? Construction tends to rile up mice.

[Anonymous]

Buy a house. Get a cat. Voila - mouse-free house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are looking in Bethesda/CC and had three houses inspected. The houses were all built within the past 30 years, but have mice in the basements. Is this a problem for those specific houses (they were not built or maintained well) or a common problem in the area? Do we have to look in newer neighborhoods, such as those in Potomac or even north bethesda, to find a house without mice? Can anyone recommend a close in neighborhood where houses built within the past 30 years usually don't have mice?

You'll never find a house, anywhere, that's been around for a couple decades that hasn't had a few mice. No houses are built well enough to keep them out over the long term.

Did you actually have a contract on houses that you walked away from because of mice?

[Anonymous]

Get a house. Get a cat. Or pay an exhorbitant amount to find all the holes and plug with with steel wool. Mice are a thing in the suburbs. Be thankful it's not rats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buy a house. Get a cat. Voila - mouse-free house.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are looking in Bethesda/CC and had three houses inspected. The houses were all built within the past 30 years, but have mice in the basements. Is this a problem for those specific houses (they were not built or maintained well) or a common problem in the area? Do we have to look in newer neighborhoods, such as those in Potomac or even north bethesda, to find a house without mice? Can anyone recommend a close in neighborhood where houses built within the past 30 years usually don't have mice?

Catoctin MD

Catlett VA

[Anonymous]

You are weird OP.

[Anonymous]

Cabin John has no mice for some reason. Try there. As well as Poolesville.

[Anonymous]

New builds are tighter and have less issues with rodents. Also trees cause rodents

[Anonymous]

Areas with large lots. We have no have one mouse since moving to our 1970s house on 1/2 an acre.

[Anonymous]

Basically impossible OP.

[Anonymous]

We have owned seven homes and have never had mice. Weird question, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have owned seven homes and have never had mice. Weird question, OP.

Never? What do you attribute it to?
It’s a pretty common problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New builds are tighter and have less issues with rodents. Also trees cause rodents

The mice just autogenerate right out of the roots. Similar to how fruit flies are caused by fruit.