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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, it’s really really common to have rodents on your property in the desert.  It’s almost impossible not to have rodents in a property that size.  Not in the house but very common in the vehicles etc.  I know lots and lots of people that had kangaroo rats nest in their car engines and/or their jacuzzi engines.  It’s a major PitA because they chew through the wires and their nexts can catch fire when the motor runs.  Kangaroo rats are just the worst but they don’t carry hanta as often as deer mice do.  Expecting a property that size to be rodent free is like expecting it to be insect free — not gonna happen.  
She probably went into the garage to get something out of storage and when she moved it a big puff of dust came up into her face.  We’ve all done something like that but most of us aren’t living in places where hanta virus is endemic.
It’s weird to me that there were rodents in the guest houses however.  That suggests poor maintenance around the doorway entries or something, or really surprising construction for the area.[/quote]

This is what I get exhausted with -- the excuses.  "She probably went into the garage to get something out of storage and when she moved it a big puff of dust came up into her face." or that "It’s weird to me that there were rodents in the guest houses however.  That suggests poor maintenance around the doorway entries or something."

The bottom line is that there were rodents/mice/rat-like creatures, dead and alive, nests also spotted, in 8 of the surrounding buildings of their main area.  Not two or 3 buildings, but all 8, including two casitas.  Also dead and alive rodents/mice/rat-like creatures were located in two or three of their vehicles/cars, and in several of their garages.  You are acting like "yeah, the are present in this part of the country, but not that big a deal, just let them run their course..."

-Didn't Betsy drive vehicles or a vehicle often and ran errands throughout the day to the vet, shopping, her business, the doctors, etc, in her vehicle(s)?

-Didn't they leave doors open around the house that led to the outside of their home, which includes walkways, etc?
-Even if Betsy went into the garage and put her hand in feces or urine by mistake, wasn't their evidence that they existed there and that she had an infestation?
-Is Hantavirus/deer mice new in this area or a pretty common and known occurrence? You said yourself that "Expecting a property that size to be rodent free is like expecting it to be insect free — not gonna happen."  So it seems like she knew about the mice, had traps laid out in the other buildings.
-Isn't is also possible that there were mice that managed to get inside of the house?

Any way you look at it, there was a lot of potential exposure to mice and Hantavirus on the property, whether it was in one of the cars, in one of the casitas or other 8 buildings, in the garages, or randomly in the home since they left doors open and the design of the terraces, etc. created openings.  It DOES NOT TAKE huge openings for mice to get into a house. They only need an opening about the size of a quarter. They squeeze their bodies into shapes to get into tiny spaces.  But like it or not, a full infestation was going on and Betsy and her maintenance guy could not get control over it.
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