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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to have rats as an issue for the county to take notice.  But before you do, you need to be honest as to what your top true intentions are:

1) to keep your property mice free?
2) to check on the health and welfare of your widowed, childless, elderly neighbor?
3) to get help for said neighbor

Honestly, since it seems you haven't taken the time to really get to know your neighbor from 2 doors down it seems like your true motivation is to find a source for your mice.  Look, I don't want mice either, I've had them before and we still get them from time to time and have to have those glue traps which I'm not crazy about using.  But immediately pointing the finger at a neighbor you think is a hoarder because of mice seems like a stretch.  Now if you had roaches or rats, then there definitely could be a correlation.

I am a child of hoarders.  I grew up in a loving, but hoarded house, my parents still hoard, I haven't been in there house in over a decade.  Instead of cleaning, they buy more houses, they currently own four.  There likely is a hoarder in every street in this country, some you can tell from the street, some you cannot.  Does the neighbor keep all the curtains drawn all day long, every day?  What does her yard look like?  What does the outside of her house look like ( paint peeling, weeds?). 
In all likelihood a trauma like a spouses death can trigger the worsening of a hoard.  If she doesn't have children, there likely isn't anyone to check on her regularly.  Hoarding has a very low rate of recuperation.  So if you think calling some clean up task force will work, the answer is no.  If you call the county to have a health code violation check, are you prepared for this woman to be put on the street and made homeless if her home is condemned?  Where will she go? She has no kids.

you can call department of aging and ask if there is a hoarding task force.  If you see rats, then you can call the health department for the county. [b] But honestly, maybe it's time to get to know your neighbor better.  Make up an excuse, it's New Years, send a card, drop off some cookies, whatever.  See for yourself how she lives.  [/b]See how she's doing.  Reach out.  If she truly is in a dangerous situation (really unsanitary like an animal or food board or a legitimate fire hazard) then call it in, but be honest with yourself why you're really doing this.[/quote]

Did you read OP's follow-up responses?

[quote]She will never answer her door if you knock, but she will respond to phone messages and chat outside of her house. [/quote][/quote]

well, how many times has she knocked? one time last year?[/quote]

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