Gene Hackman's estate was breeding ground for rodents that killed them both.

[Votto]

Gene Hackman, Betsy Arakawa’s property was ‘breeding ground for infestation’ with dead rodents, feces all over

The legendary actor's wife died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which is linked to rodents. They were both found dead in their New Mexico home in February.

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Apparently, their $4 million home was a breeding ground for rodents and infestation, even though there were no visible signs of it in the home. The exposure to the rodent's feces around the estate is what caused the wife to contract a nasty virus and die.

Scary.

I reckon money can only buy so much.

 

[Lisa558]

They were clearly incapable of living on their own, and their children should have placed them in an assisted living facility of some sort.

 

[Moonglow]

They were clearly incapable of living on their own, and their children should have placed them in an assisted living facility of some sort.

They were not getting any of his money, so they didn't help.

 

[Mashmont]

Gene Hackman, Betsy Arakawa’s property was ‘breeding ground for infestation’ with dead rodents, feces all over

The legendary actor's wife died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which is linked to rodents. They were both found dead in their New Mexico home in February.

www.yahoo.com

Apparently, their $4 million home was a breeding ground for rodents and infestation, even though there were no visible signs of it in the home. The exposure to the rodent's feces around the estate is what caused the wife to contract a nasty virus and die.

Scary.

I reckon money can only buy so much.

Pest control services are exploiting this incident. This happened to me three weeks ago. I have never seen such blatant crookedness by a national company in my life.

A tenant of mine texts me in a panic. The Orkin man told him his home and attic were infested with mice and had been for a long time. This is a longtime tenant for whom I've kept the rent relatively low, so he will pay for little things himself. So one day his daughter comes up from her basement bedroom screaming because she found mice droppings on her bed and in her closet. The tenant calls Orkin who comes out and does an 'investigation'. He 'found' a complete infestation in the attic He brought up the Hackman incident and convinced my tenant he was living in a dangerous situation. They said they would take out the insulation in the attack, sanitize it and put it back in, and smoke out the house. But he guaranteed there would be no mice problem after that. Cost: $8300.
My BS meter went up immediately, so I called the small local company whom I'd used. They went to the house and found a small hole near the bottom of the basement door. He said that was the obvious spot mice had come in, probably after a major ice storm we'd had a month or so before. He pointed to the trail to the girl's bedroom. He checked the attic and found zilch. So he put out a couple of little boxes where mice would eat a poison then spread it to the others. He said the mice would be gone within a week, then we could seal the hole. Cost: $179.
Conclusion: The Orkin man concocted a lie, tried to scare my tenant, and extort a large amount of money for a problem that didn't exist. We then fixed a minor problem for very little cost.

 

[Moonglow]

For the last 27 years, I have lived on 43 acres in the country, yes there were mice but I never died from them.
PS, don't eat after mice and don't eat their shit.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Pest control services are exploiting this incident. This happened to me three weeks ago. I have never seen such blatant crookedness by a national company in my life.

A tenant of mine texts me in a panic. The Orkin man told him his home and attic were infested with mice and had been for a long time. This is a longtime tenant for whom I've kept the rent relatively low, so he will pay for little things himself. So one day his daughter comes up from her basement bedroom screaming because she found mice droppings on her bed and in her closet. The tenant calls Orkin who comes out and does an 'investigation'. He 'found' a complete infestation in the attic He brought up the Hackman incident and convinced my tenant he was living in a dangerous situation. They said they would take out the insulation in the attack, sanitize it and put it back in, and smoke out the house. But he guaranteed there would be no mice problem after that. Cost: $8300.
My BS meter went up immediately, so I called the small local company whom I'd used. They went to the house and found a small hole near the bottom of the basement door. He said that was the obvious spot mice had come in, probably after a major ice storm we'd had a month or so before. He pointed to the trail to the girl's bedroom. He checked the attic and found zilch. So he put out a couple of little boxes where mice would eat a poison then spread it to the others. He said the mice would be gone within a week, then we could seal the hole. Cost: $179.
Conclusion: The Orkin man concocted a lie, tried to scare my tenant, and extort a large amount of money for a problem that didn't exist. We then fixed a minor problem for very little cost.

Typo.

Caveat emptor.

 

[Lisa558]

Pest control services are exploiting this incident. This happened to me three weeks ago. I have never seen such blatant crookedness by a national company in my life.

A tenant of mine texts me in a panic. The Orkin man told him his home and attic were infested with mice and had been for a long time. This is a longtime tenant for whom I've kept the rent relatively low, so he will pay for little things himself. So one day his daughter comes up from her basement bedroom screaming because she found mice droppings on her bed and in her closet. The tenant calls Orkin who comes out and does an 'investigation'. He 'found' a complete infestation in the attic He brought up the Hackman incident and convinced my tenant he was living in a dangerous situation. They said they would take out the insulation in the attack, sanitize it and put it back in, and smoke out the house. But he guaranteed there would be no mice problem after that. Cost: $8300.
My BS meter went up immediately, so I called the small local company whom I'd used. They went to the house and found a small hole near the bottom of the basement door. He said that was the obvious spot mice had come in, probably after a major ice storm we'd had a month or so before. He pointed to the trail to the girl's bedroom. He checked the attic and found zilch. So he put out a couple of little boxes where mice would eat a poison then spread it to the others. He said the mice would be gone within a week, then we could seal the hole. Cost: $179.
Conclusion: The Orkin man concocted a lie, tried to scare my tenant, and extort a large amount of money for a problem that didn't exist. We then fixed a minor problem for very little cost.

You have to be really careful with the rip-off contractors.

I smelled something yucky in my bedroom, and the contractor determined that a racoon had nested up in the attic - long gone - but that waste products were still up there. He said he’d clean up the attic space but then tried to scare me that the entire roof was a neglected disaster and needed to be redone, to the tune of $30,000, or animals would continue to come in. (He took no photos of all the supposed damage.)

I called someone else, and he found a small opening around one of the dormers that provided entry to the raccoon. He said he would clean up the attic, and patch and paint the dormer, and problem would be solved. Cost: $900.

( P.S. Years later, we DID redo the roof, and the total cost was $14,000 - less than half the cost of the first guy.)