October 24, 2024 • 40 mins
Ever find yourself sitting on the edge of your seat, not just for the Knicks' big win, but for the lowdown on how to keep your home free from tiny, uninvited guests? That's exactly where we're taking you in this latest buzz of an episode, with Louis Pignatello joining us to recount his off-the-beaten-path leap from business grad to exterminator extraordinaire. Listen to Louis's invaluable advice on spotting those telltale signs of infestation and why sealing up those sneaky structural gaps shouldn't just be an item on your to-do list—it's a must.
But it's not all about the bugs; we've got wildlife tales that'll rival any blockbuster – think raccoons holding court in attics and close encounters with bears that'll have you gripping your seat. We trade stories that'll have you laughing (and maybe cringing), all the while weaving in practical nuggets on seasonal pest control maintenance to keep critters at bay, whether you're bracing against Yonkers' famed field mice or the all-too-familiar urban skunk.
And as we venture into the concrete jungle of New York City, prepare for a gritty take on the rat race that's more literal than you'd ever hope. We're dishing out essential tips for renters and homeowners alike, from leveraging city services to holding landlords accountable. So strap in for a conversation that's as enlightening as it is entertaining, because we're about more than just stories here – we're arming you with the know-how to defend your home against the wildest of foes.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
welcome to suit up with bias podcast episode nine.
I'm here with my co-host,angela bias, angela, and I'm
here with my special guest,louis pignatello.
Yes, and we are super excitedto have you here on our platform
.
Before anything, the Knicks won, guys.
Amen, man.
Finally we're going to roundtwo, second year.
I'm excited.
(00:33):
Hopefully the Knicks win.
So let's go, knicks, keep it up, guys.
So tell us about yourself 32,same age as you, you know, moved
to New York, always lived in.
New York but moved after Igraduated college for good.
Wasn't even supposed to get anexterminator, honestly.
Got my degree in business and Ikind of got conned into it.
(00:55):
You got conned into it.
Yeah, I got hired for acompletely different position.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh wow, how did that go.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Like can you explain that?
I knew it was going crazy whenhe told me to meet him at a
Starbucks.
Oh my God, that's so shady,that's like, where everyone
wants to meet and do businessright.
I had a similar story as you.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I went to a bookstore and there was this guy that was
saying oh, I had this businessidea.
I want to run it by you, let'smeet at starbucks.
And I'm like okay.
And then I realized wait,there's a pyramid scheme or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I swear to god, no, you gotta be careful with those.
I swear to god.
I had my girl was texting mygirlfriend during an interview.
I'm like, make sure this islegit such and such.
Nevertheless, it was legit.
It worked out perfect, thankyou.
It was a crazy opportunity,crazy like introduction into the
company, but it worked outgreat in the long run.
Um, yeah, man, so lewis, this isan exterminator.
(01:51):
He actually have done a lot ofthings for me and he helps a lot
of our clients.
But I have a funny story I wantto share.
So I was selling a property Ibelieve it was like westchester
county so where I was sellingthe property at right right it
was a single family and ofcourse they did an inspection to
the house.
In the inspection right it waspeople in the basement right
which the seller didn't evenknow, and we had basically
(02:14):
squatters in the basement.
And guess what it was?
It was raccoons and we nevereven knew about it.
So the homeowner didn't knowthat they had raccoons in the
basement, because it seems likethis homeowner never went to the
basement.
Yeah, it's crazy.
So we almost sold this homewith squatters, raccoons.
So eventually it was a wholefamily down there.
It was about four or five ofthem.
We got them out and we got thehome sold, but thank God to the
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inspection that we were able tofind out that we had squatters
in this property.
All right, so we have you here.
Hey, I definitely want to askyou a really a big question.
It's a lot of first time homebuyers that we work with, right
yeah, you being an exterminatorfor how many years?
Going on three now, three years, great.
What do you recommend to thosebuyers out there that are first
time buyers, or any homeownerout there?
(02:57):
Why is it important to be incontact with exterminator and
what tips do you give to thepublic?
I will, for it.
Usually, I want to make surewhoever's showing you the
property make sure they haveextermination currently for that
property.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's a given.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
While you're looking around most older homes, condos,
apartments they have the oldspace heaters along the walls,
stuff like that.
They keep that same type ofdesign.
You want to check those out?
Actually, make sure and lookeverywhere else for the same
type of thing little holes,debris, shit.
(03:32):
Honestly, to be bland about it,anywhere you could see light
coming from a door, a wall, awall, but highly unlikely to
wall, obviously because you knowinside of the house, but
through a door, garage, entry.
If you're looking at a house,that's bad, all for it.
That's already showing signs ofmice activity.
It's usually not good.
Unfortunately, when you do realestate just in NYC or we're
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doing New York and Connecticutand now we're going to Jersey as
well.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Okay, all right, so we're doing all three states
right now.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, my coverall, though.
In New York, main thing isroaches and rats.
To the contrary, as they say,the percentage has gone down.
It hasn't.
If anything, it's going up more.
It's going up more.
Yeah, it's going crazy.
Like I said, look for the holesand the main thing with the
roaches is when you're cookingand you get that grease buildup.
(04:19):
Obviously in a new home orapartment or condo you shouldn't
really be seeing that.
So if you see that, that's morewhat we call frass.
It's like where the eggs can be, where their poop could be, all
types of stuff.
You'll see dismembered piecesof them because the exoskeletons
rip off.
Look like wings and stuff likethat.
Not all of them fly, don'tworry, I don't like the ones
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that fly either.
But yeah, in a nutshell, andwhen you look on your baseboards
too and I know it sounds verynitpicky Real estate agents have
definitely given me the sideeye and I don't care.
Look at the rent we pay.
I don't care, I'm with you.
You know, what I mean,especially if you're buying a
house.
Don't care about doing that.
Always look at the bottom ofyour walls, on your baseboards.
(05:02):
Make sure there's no gaps.
That's like for ants, and at theend of the day, little roaches
can come through their beetlescan come through their worms.
You know stuff like that, so Ihave one that's also.
Um, actually I personallybought a property that actually
had termites in it so I wantedto get into the termite.
But I actually bought aproperty.
It was actually scary.
I bought a single family andthe wood was all eaten, right.
(05:26):
It had a huge problem withtermites and the house it
actually was eating one of themain beams, yeah, so I at one
point felt like the house was alittle tilted because the main
beam was basically eaten bythese termites right.
Of course, I called the termitecompany to come and clean it out
.
Are you seeing a lot of homeswith these termites?
Is this something they shouldbe aware of?
(05:46):
Homeowners Not even trying tojust go along with the pod.
I literally did a termite jobtoday in Jersey.
Really.
Was it big.
It was a big home.
Okay, it was a big home.
Luckily the deterioration oftermite activity wasn't bad, so
just a regular spray job.
Tell us exactly what thetermite situation?
What exactly happened?
Why is this such a big dangerfor a home?
(06:07):
It's well, definitely with NewYork, because not a lot of homes
over here you're not allowed touse just straight cement, you
have to use wood.
Okay, so that's where they goto.
It's like the ant version of acarpenter bee.
Carpenter bees go after your,make little quarter-sized holes.
That's why sometimes you'd belike where'd this hole come from
(06:27):
?
It's from a carpenter bee andwow, yeah, no, it's super
annoying.
And they come by a bunchsometimes and it's nasty.
You think they're honeybees,but they're just carpenter bees
and it's the ant version of it.
They go to the wood, they eatthe wood, like when you go in
your attic sometimes and you seethat nice glow, you got good
wood.
Pause, no ditty, that's wherethey're going to be attracted to
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.
You start seeing the.
When you go outside, you seethe old pieces of wood that got
the cracks in them and stufflike that.
They still look like thatdeterioration.
It looks very rigid.
That's where they come from.
Yeah, it gets bad there's beena couple of times and always
check with who you're buying thehome from too, because you have
to get a certification letterto be able to sell your home.
If you have one termiteactivity and two how bad the
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termite activity is, yeah,Because you'll have to fix that
before you're able to sell yourhome.
So, yeah, it's a pain.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Definitely is.
I mean, what are the?
You probably had a lot ofstories of your house control
situations.
What was the most extreme onethat you've ever kind of it was
a good story there.
Man, I feel like extremesrelative, because man I feel
like for each animal is adifferent story which one stood
out to you the most like whenyou think of like cases that are
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kind of like come to mind asfast as possible.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Have you been chased by a red Coleman?
Oh, definitely.
There'll be people who call youand this happens a lot and it's
crazy, but it's, it's nuts howoften it happens.
A lot of people will call youand be like hey, I think I have
a squirrel in my attic.
I'm like I don't think you havea squirrel, I'll flip.
I automatically think you're aliar.
(08:08):
You're not going to know untilyou go up there and I don't
recommend anybody go up there.
So by colonists you're doingthe right thing, but still.
So you'll go in the attic andraccoons aren't going to attack
you off rip, unless they'repregnant, Unless they just had
babies.
Because they think they'recoming for babies, they're going
to go right after you.
It's nuts and that's happened acouple of times.
(08:29):
I'll go right up in the atticone time.
Oh man, Nasty, nasty place.
As soon as you open the atticdoors, you see the poop coming
down.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Oh my God, yeah, it's falling down, it's nuts.
So they basically never openedthe hatch or anything.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I don't think he's ever opened Gosh, at least since
who knows how long.
Wow, over 10 days easily.
So, just like mounds of itcoming down, yeah, it's not a
squirrel, I'm going to becompletely, I don't even have to
go up there.
He's like hey, can you confirmthat?
I'm like, yeah, I can confirmit by just looking at the pool.
But then, like sometimes youknow, you get those clients that
(09:05):
just like they're all headedI'm like do you also handle the
bears?
I've gotten a bear call before,and not through the job, through
a friend of mine.
So you square up and know aboutthe bear.
I don't recommend that don'trecommend.
The thing is is like you're notgonna see much bears over here.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's more north yeah and that's the thing my man
scared of the city I went toschool up in saratoga.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh, so you, so you came across the city.
The guy who I was renting mycollege apartment from.
He called me he's like you dealwith bears.
And I was like I mean, I livedin Florida, I dealt with
crocodiles, I could deal withthem, and I dealt with panthers,
I could deal with a bear.
And he was like, well, I don'tknow how you could handle that,
but if you could, I got anopportunity for you and I didn't
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technically handle it, but Ihad some friends up there and
took a trip and handled it.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You handled it.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Gotcha.
The laws up there are waybetter so you can actually carry
a gun up there like a niceRemington.
Isn't there a thing called bearspray?
Yeah, oh, there is.
I didn't even know that.
Yeah, no, it's.
Oh there is.
I didn't even know that.
Yeah, no, it's absolutely Beerspray.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, is that effective?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
That's what I use.
Oh, that's what you use.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That's what you use to fight when they're coming at
you, Definitely it neutralizesthem right Completely.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
What it does to them.
I never knew this.
It does neutralize them.
I, if they're really pissed off, spray them and run.
Don't think you're going tosquare up with them, or nothing
like that, definitely spray them.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
They'll eventually kind of they back off, gotcha,
they back off, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So If you can keep a Remington on you up north, keep
a Remington on you up north aswell, honestly.
Yeah, you know, I actually had a.
That's where I met him.
A few months ago I actually hada bee house in my backyard.
How many months ago was this?
Probably a year, about a yearago, I had a bee house.
Now I got to call him againbecause the bee is back.
(10:58):
It's my fault when we first didthe job, as I told you, because
you said you were doingconstruction there.
What I told you is I'm going toremove what they got on the
exterior.
You're going to get yourconstruction done in the
wintertime, as you said you weregoing to do, and now it's about
to be the summer.
You never got it and in thewintertime they're dead.
That's me, I know.
In the wintertime they're dead.
(11:24):
You don't really have to worryabout something like that.
You're going to haveconstruction.
While you're doing theconstruction, make sure that's
taken care of and you're goingto go.
I would say yo, that B thing isno joke.
No, it's no joke.
You know how we found out aboutit, guys.
The reality we found out wasthat in my house and I noticed
there was Bs coming in thewindow, but it was like.
(11:53):
My wife was like whoa, I'venever seen so many bees.
You know how they operate.
Oh my god, they they scary.
I'll tell you that don't.
Don't go in the area, yeah yeah,you saw the suit I came out in,
so he had a whole suit up hadto go in this, like he went just
to world war three just nowwith these bees, he went in
there and took care of it.
He definitely I mean he killeda lot.
(12:14):
It was a lot of bees I sayshout out to the people with the
honeybees, because that is likethat's the real deal, ten times
worse.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Did you have that suit from the honeybee?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I have a version of that suit.
Yeah, ok, theirs is a littlebit thicker.
Okay, dude, it's nuts.
I've like we don't really havehoneybees over here.
I kind of want to do a jobbecause it looks it's really
easy.
I've dealt with honeybees andlike when I lived in florida I
lived in florida for 20 yearsyou deal with everything crazy
people, crazy animals, like it'snuts.
So you deal with alligators andall that everything everything
(12:46):
and like growing up, you havelike awesome redneck friends
like what was the name of thatguy that died.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
He's a dude with like alligators and everything oh,
steve, irwin, yeah the crocodileyeah, he was nuts with that
that's not my damn stingray whata way to go out when you're
manhandling crocodiles every day.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It's terrible.
Were you handling like thatwith the crocodiles or not?
My friends were.
I got ballsy a couple times butlike, hey, they're crazy.
We have like a rope swing um inlike the neighborhood and, if
you can oh my god, it was nutslike you.
You go there.
Sometimes there's nothing.
You go there.
Sometimes there's gators allover, wow, and sometimes they
just go right in and hit overthe people's elbow.
(13:24):
You know what?
Which animal was so ugly?
Yeah, I see them a lot aroundhere.
Possums, dude, I knew it, youknow it's crazy.
There is one around here.
They're.
That is huge and he can't evenwalk.
They're nasty, I'm not gonnalie.
They're disgusting.
You handle them as well.
Yeah, no, I catch everything.
Did you see their teeth?
yeah, it's crazy you understandthey're not gonna bite you right
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.
Really like they look scary man.
Yeah, they're honestly one ofthe coolest things ever.
They're like a big version of arat.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, they're a rodent.
They're a rodent.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
They're disgusting.
They are disgusting.
I'm not going to hold you there.
And when I lived in Florida, Ihad friends who had them as pets
.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I remember seeing a meme of a girl at nighttime kind
of walking beside a car withthe door open.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
She was outside and she's like oh, I found a friend
yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I remember seeing that one.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And like alright, they're omnivores, so
technically.
I see a lot of people do videoslike that with the possums.
That's what I'm saying.
They're harmless and they havelike a chemical that literally
makes them pass out.
Really, yeah, that's what thewhole playing possum thing like
over-simulated and dumb.
You know what I do when I'mdriving, angelo knows what I do
when I'm driving and I see anytype of raccoons or paws on a
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squirrel, nah, I drive afterthem and you see them running
their life on you know whatAngelo, oh my God.
I was driving after a squirreland yo after him, because I
don't let them come near myhouse.
So I chased him with my car.
I actually chased a positive.
He came in front of my house.
I was like out of my truck.
I was like I'm gonna chase him.
And I chased him and he went.
No, he's going everywhere.
(14:55):
Yeah, my pops that's a skunkone time and learned his lesson.
Oh and I don't mess with skunkshe learned his lesson very
quick for some reason, right infront of my property it rate
three or four.
They kill other skunks, butthose things, it's like the
smell comes into your house andit's like wow, how'd you get
that smell off?
Yeah, good question on you off,like if it gets like I'm saying
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tomatoes, tomatoes, interesting, do you have to bathe in like
tomatoes?
No, yeah, oh man.
Rest in peace, vander.
My dog got sprayed by a skunkone time uh-huh nuts and like
they, if they get straight, likesprayed, like head-on, they can
get like um caesars, pardon meoh yeah, they can get like bad
caesars.
But he didn't.
That was cool.
But yeah, no, we were like itwas like eight, nine o'clock.
(15:37):
We're in stop and shop gettingmad cans of tomato sauce.
She had him in the basementshower.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Just bathe him in tomato sauce exactly because I
think I, I've seen that yeah, Ithink I've seen a video of
someone like getting sprayed Ithink it was a movie and then
they went into like a bathtub oflike red and it's tomatoes yeah
.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And man, that stuff, even still after the tomatoes it
kind of just like lingers, butyou know it gets it off.
But let me ask you a questionOn every.
You know it's different, it'sfour seasons, but it's different
.
It's four seasons, right, it'sdifferent seasons.
I'm on every season on a home,like, let's say, I'm the
homeowner, right?
Is there a treatment I shoulddo every different season as a
homeowner?
Or there's a treatment that weshould do every year?
That you think is the best todo every year depends where you
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live at, depends as a homeowner.
Let's say, new york city, newyork city, new york city, you
should have maintenance the yearin, year out.
What type of maintenance?
The full pest controlmaintenance.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And that is what?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Let's be specific because over here, like I said,
it really depends what you liveat, where in New York, let's say
Yonkers, new York, all right,we'll say right around here,
okay, all right.
Over here you can get away withlike a quarterly maintenance.
If you have a newer home,that's maintenance, like your
own maintenance.
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If you have an older home, thatis still maintenance.
You want to make sure, like Iwas saying when you were looking
at your home, what you shouldlook for and stuff like that.
If you don't have any of that,you can get it with like a
quarterly maintenance.
Quarterly is literally byseason, every three months and
Drear, like the situation thatwe eventually ended up handling
for a friend of yours.
The mice situation.
Yeah, field, field mice a dime,a dozen in yonkers, especially
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your soil is amazing.
So that's gonna happen and it'sgonna call a lot of mice as a
soil okay, had um over here too.
I've dealt with a lot of inlayyonkers.
Like you have a lot of fieldmice in the attic.
In the attic, yeah, ohinteresting when you're attic
and then sometimes you go up youpoop all over your insulation.
Yeah, that happens.
All these mice just goteverywhere.
(17:34):
That's so disgusted by night.
That's why it's so funny thatthey say that they had like a
big thing percentage went downthis and that they use this to
do this, and now they'rechanging it all up because it
didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah so like for the summer.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Right now that the summer's coming, summer's the
hottest season, yeah, so whatservice do you think you should
provide in the summer?
I would always get full serviceduring the summer, regardless
if you're in the Yonkers, bronxor definitely Bronx, manhattan
hot cities.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
But when you?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
say full service, what?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
is full service for the public.
That's out there.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Always make sure you are good for road and activity.
If you have one mouse, it'sbetter than one mouse turning
into 10.
Gotcha, you know what I mean.
So you always want to make sureyou have pest control service
that's going to provide poisonboxes, to make sure that your
perimeter is always monitored.
Always make sure your house isnot easy, not vacant, for them
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to come in.
Make sure there's no holesaround.
Make sure there's no gapsaround stuff like that.
No gaps around stuff like that.
In the summertime, depending howyour house is, obviously in
your boiler room, you alwayswant to make sure there's
service there.
So, god forbid.
They usually go to boiler rooms, yeah, yeah, and then water
bugs do too.
Oh god, just remember, all ofour waste goes flushes out.
So, yeah, what goes out canalso come in.
(18:47):
That's right.
Yeah, yeah, like, for instance,like for me.
I want to do the memory I wastelling I want to get the around
the whole my yard spray,because these bugs in the summer
get so annoying.
You can't even be outside withyour kids and you're getting
stung by all these bugs.
And you, you recommended me toto get a spray.
Yeah, definitely, because thathandles it down.
Now, granted, if we have aheavy rain season, we'll have to
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get it a couple times, but itdefinitely does help out.
That's why I love jersey.
Jersey you could like.
Jersey is the air is better.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
No, not even that's all, but like you can get even
though it's getting worse.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Because the construction over there is crazy
right now a lot of bought up.
It's insane how much they'rebuilding but they don't have,
like crazy, pest controllers.
So half the chemicals I coulduse for a company here I could
use as a homeowner over there.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So it's different laws in every state.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
New York is crazy, because you'll have a chemical
that you could use for like sixmonths and they ban it for like
four and then they let you useit again after.
It's crazy.
They do all types of stuff.
It's so volatile.
Yeah, I mean, there's certainchemicals that are super toxic.
There's some chemicals that areeco, but they still switch them
out.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
If you have kids, you gotta be careful, that super
careful.
Yeah, these chemicals arereally strong super careful.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I'm not a big fan of pets, so really I just got a
puppy.
Are you that?
Which thing in the world?
It's a multi-poole.
Oh, look at this, look at thisI'll show you the camera up
close later.
Is that?
It's like my daughter, it'slike the kid I never had, so
it's.
And it's a treater.
So, too, I like blow money onthis dog.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
My girlfriend does the same thing oh wow, oh, I
love them like very expensivedog I got lucky.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
My sister owns a dog business.
Nice clients didn't want tolike one of the clients that he
spent all the money on it'scrazy, he spent like six
thousand dollars on it and wasjust like we can't handle it
during the like.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
What a blessing.
It was such a blessing, oh myGod, so Wow.
My sister surprised me one day.
I was like here you go.
I was like looking for a dogtoo.
I was like, oh great, Evenbetter.
And my girlfriend's allergic?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Like so we got a cat and didn't do anything.
No, he ended up.
Yeah, he ended up actually hisfirst couple of days.
He actually I woke up and hewas on top of me with the dead
rat right on on the dude I can'thandle that.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You know it's great.
Oh my god, I really.
I am so like ah, the funnything is when you get a cat and
they, like, end up being scaredof them.
I've had a couple I had acouple of clients really, I
bought a cat to try to handlethis mice problem and now I'm
calling you because he's morescared of it than I am.
It happens it's really hit ormiss you know, when I used to go
to, when I used to live in thecity, in the bronx, I took the
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train you know the trains are.
It was this big rat, so, um,the driver of the the train.
So the rat was poison and hewas like drugged up, walking
left and right like that, likeall side to side, and I'm like,
oh, and he kept opening, closing, door, opening, but and
everybody will go crazy, I meanit was a really big rat and he
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kept.
You know, remember New YorkCity, those train station guys,
you're going to see it all.
So this rat was huge but he wasso poisonous he just kept going
left and right Like any secondhe was going to die.
So the guy just kept opening,closing the door and the train
was full.
So all those girls werescreaming, everybody was
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screaming in there.
I mean, this ride was huge.
Nah, there was a couple times,like when I used to take the
train to work and maybe, like ahomeless guy sleeping on the
train, you had like a rat withhim.
Oh yeah, like a pet no not a pet, just like he was there with
him and then like somebody wouldsit down and run right off and
then it's in like the cab bro.
That happens so much.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah, I mean those rats areeverywhere over here.
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That's why it's crazy how, likethe average rent's like 4 500.
I'm like that's nuts, yeah, newyork rats are a different.
It's not they eat the cablesout your car.
Oh yeah, they did that to mycar?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
yeah twice, what did it to your car?
The rats, they ate the cable.
We told me yeah, insane it'sinsane.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I don't know, man, these rats, I cannot stand them.
No, it's, isn't that you know.
It's crazy, though, like yourproblem is becoming a problem
for like everyone, the bees arefor some reason becoming crazy
really the pollen is nuts.
I don't know what is like, whathappened, but the bees are
crazy.
I used to be a parent with mykids.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, no.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Because they get staining so little.
Yeah, you don't know.
So that's the reason.
When we saw those bees, theywere coming in our house like in
and out, and I was like wherethese bees are coming from.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well, I'll tell you something, that you got more
business now.
That's how I met him, thoughthat was good that I met him as
much as I hate to say it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I'd be kind of like waiting for the summer.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You get to use your bee suit more.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, I hate that thing though It'd be hot.
Oh my God, it'd be so hot.
But yeah, it's cool.
Do you feel the stings if theytry to Is there a pest that you
think is the most disgustingthey all are Bedbugs.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh, bedbugs are so nasty, do you come?
Across that too, and then, ifyou kill them, all the blood
comes out from them.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I wish I could show the case.
So bedbug is probably the worstpest on your opinion.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I think it's mice and rats.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You sure about that?
I remember I went to a houseguys in the Bronx I was selling,
so one thing that happens inthe Bronx.
I do want to share this story.
So a lot of these developersare doing they're doing the egg
digging.
All those rats start goingeverywhere, right, and oh, geez,
yeah, that's serious.
Completely covered so all therats start going, like, for
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instance, when the Yankeesstayed right.
You saw, when the old Yankeescame to take it down, I was
hearing that literally rats werejust going up the hills in
Anderson Avenue, like literallygoing up there because I saw the
house there and she was likeAlex, you will come outside and
you will see like rats runningslowly up because they didn't
find no place.
So when, when these developersstarted digging and started
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building, that's where all thesemice and rats go everywhere.
So I went to a basement onetime and the homeowner haven't
been there for months and I'venever seen so many that rats
dead in the basement, like I waslike I wouldn't have said I
told the side I couldn't handleit and guess what?
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guys, I'll be honest with youguys, I didn't even list the
property, like I couldn't handleit, like that's how many rats
it were.
None of them ran on you.
No, I ran, I left.
I told you, I left the guy withthe paper in his hand and I
just I couldn't handle, it wasjust too many rats.
No, yeah, I'm trying to sellthis house, but I'm like damn
this is too many rats.
Oh my god, there's a there's asuper that literally went
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through like something like thatand his wife was recording it
and bro he went screaming.
I'm so disgusted, I'm not a lotof you guys, I actually left,
like I left so fast he wascalling me.
I was like I'm sorry, man,there's too many rats in there.
Man, I can, I can't handle thissale with these rats yeah, Alex
gets squeezy around.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
He gets a little squeamish around rats.
That's why he told me to killthe rat that was around here.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, I cannot, oh that little guy.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I cannot deal with those shit.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I'll be honest with you, I can't deal with those
rats at all.
No, yeah, she's a funny thing,and I hate to say this because
I've lived here for a very longtime.
I was born here.
But you don't have to do pestcontrol in New York to have a
story about pest control.
It's so true, it's nuts.
I used to live on Fordham andGrant, well, specifically 190
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and Grant, which is right nextto Fordham, south Bronx, is
nasty with the rats you weresaying about when Yankee Stadium
got torn down.
It don't even have to be afterconstruction because, yes,
that's when the rodents do comeup.
But, like, walk into Fordham,there's a bodega on the corner
every night.
Walk up there, there's abuilding before and the super
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doesn't really take care of thebuilding Story of majority of
supers in the Bronx and thatlittle trash room right there.
Hundreds of them, yeah, andlike when you walk by, because
they hear you walking by is whenthey start running out and they
don't have bones so you go towalk, you step on them.
It's like stepping on jello,like yeah, and then they would
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squeeze up from underneath yourfeet and run off.
Oh God.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I didn't know that they don't have bones.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
No, they have no bones.
That's the reason they couldfit anywhere.
Right, they could fit anywhereLike a hole this big yeah, a
full-size rat could get through.
Oh, it's crazy.
Oh my God, they like look, theyhave videos of it, but I've
literally seen it where afull-size rat will come through
a hole like this and you justsee the squeezing.
They don't stop, it contorts.
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It's crazy.
And they move fast too.
Yeah, no, they move really fast, and they've killed dogs before
because they'd be that big.
There's literally some ratsdown in the city that are
borderline the size of likeYorkies and Chihuahuas.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, I remember seeing a video of a New York rat
right, dragging like a deadpigeon.
Oh yeah, oh.
I did see that story Like.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Only in New York you saw the one in the subway where
he took those pizzas.
Yeah, oh yeah, I saw the one inthe city that took that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw thatyeah.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I saw that on TikTok.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
That he took the pizza and it was a big slice.
It wasn't a small slice, no, no, it was a New York slice.
Yeah, it was like no, this iscrazy.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, the permanent residence in New York, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
That's why it's good to have always a pest control,
especially when you'repurchasing a home.
Right, definitely get sometreatment before you purchase a
home, before you move in, have apest control, come in there and
definitely give you the servicethat they deserve.
Not for sure.
Is there a tip that you wouldlike to give people out there?
Is there a specific tip thatyou would like to give?
Do you do only homeowners oryou do with renters?
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Yeah, I do rent.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I do everything.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Renters commercial we do it all I specifically for
people who are renting ashomeowners, shout out to y'all
Y'all good, unless you buying ahouse in the city, and then, yes
, listen to this as well Forapartments and condos, if you're
renting, always make sure yourbuilding has a legit pest
control company for yourbuilding.
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Other than that, always knowthat you could take that off
your rent.
You could always call a pestcontrol company and then take
that right to your office andsay that's going off my rent
because they have to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Oh, they have to, they have to Okay.
So if you call your own pestcontrol guy and they come in,
they do the thing.
They reduce the rent.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
What they try to do is you have to also follow up,
do your writing work and stufflike that.
And I mean this you call themthe first time.
They're going to have the pestcontrol guy come out or he won't
come out, Regardless.
If he doesn't fix your problem,you hit him up again.
You have to do it a couple oftimes.
You call him like two, threetimes.
You let him know.
If they don't solve the problem, that's when you can go ahead
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and call somebody else.
I had a leak.
Oh my God, Tell me Storiesgalore, man.
They're one of the worstinfestations that I've ever seen
In the city Dykeman area,Around Dykeman.
And she had a baby too.
I was like, damn, it's terribleand fumigation ain't cheap.
Roach fumigation, bed bugfumigation any fumigation,
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anything with fumigation, notcheap.
So if you want it done right,you want it cheap, you're going
to go to Home Depot, spend about$100 in those raid cans, get no
result.
Then you still end up having tocall somebody and there you go.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
So paid over $1,000.
He's a two-bedroom apartment.
Wow, yeah, bad.
And she was stressed.
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I was like no, no, no, becauseshe called up a couple of times,
such and so forth.
She called 311, filed a ticket.
Nothing, always do that too.
Call 311 because it's not amaintainable living space.
So you have the right to dothat.
Oh, that's a no, yes, and youalways want to have that written
down.
Ie 311.
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So when you do go, do a pestcontrol person get that
fumigation, have to spend over athousand dollars, whatever the
case may be, you can bring thatto them, have all the back of
paperwork.
I've done this step.
I've done this step.
I've done this step.
I made a report.
Boom, they have to.
They act like they don't a lotof times.
Push the button, they comply.
They have to cause that.
(31:15):
Fine.
So what happened to the lady?
She got an appointment right.
She eventually got it right.
They took that they saidalright, boom, they tried to
break it down.
They were like we'll break itdown into thirds.
Each month she shout out to mySpanish people Boricua, she
wasn't having it.
As you know, we don't put upwith a lot of shit, and that's
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one of them.
Again, pushed over sucks.
So she stood up for herself,got it for the month, and she
was good.
Wow, for herself, got it forthe month and she was good wow,
that's good you know, you got toknow your rights too right.
And also, like I say to thesehomeowners um if you have also
renters in your place, you know,do good for them.
You know I'm that.
I'm that landlord.
Like I like to do good for mytenants, I'm do good for them if
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they call me.
They told me they got rodents,I'll take care of instantly.
You know I got lewis here, sowe're definitely calling him for
everything we need.
Yeah, but they got you goingthrough.
Right now you kind of have toyeah right, you can't give them
no right to want to not pay rentbecause God they got you out
about the Bulls right now.
It's terrible.
How's that squatters law goingon?
Not raccoons, I mean people,though.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So the squatter law actually is good now.
Yeah, there's no more squatterrights.
Nice, now it's completelytrespassing.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Right, because they're not protected under the
tenant rights anymore.
I don't understand how it was.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So there's no more squatter rights.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It's just an arcade, only raccoons got rights.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, the only one that got rights to it.
They see, louis Bro.
No, we can't kill him.
They got to evict him for us.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
They got to evict him .
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Make sure your pest control guy always takes them
over 10 miles too, or they'llcome right back.
Oh, 10 miles.
I always tell people to do thistoo.
See, I don't mind because I domy job, so I really don't care.
If y'all want to make sure togo get some spray paint.
Spray paint is till we do likea cage method.
They get caught in the cage.
No, take them off the property,take some spray paint.
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Spray paint that motherfuckerBright orange, whatever you want
to do.
So if he does get caught again,if you see the spray paint, you
know they didn't do their jobright, because he will come back
.
They'll come back.
If it ain't 10 miles, they willcome back, really they will
come back.
Is it it through their scent orsomething?
The scent is insane gosh.
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Now raccoons are fire too.
If you get past, like I didn'teven know the bad experiences
with raccoon, they fight.
Really I'm telling florida gota bad rep.
It's pretty bad, but it got abad rep because new york is
pretty bad too.
So but like florida, you seesome cool shit and you see some
raccoons that be on it.
Yo, even over here too, likethey'll help each other break
out of a cage.
If they've seen one get caughtbefore, they got memories, they
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got thumbs, they could move likeus better because they like
parkour.
Do they eat rodents, they eateverything.
They're smart though.
They eat mouses and all that.
They eat all that.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Damn.
Alex is about to get a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, I'm about to get a raccoon.
Go nab up a baby anddomesticate it, like my redneck
fans.
So how is it with the raccoonsand the possums?
I'm curious about that, as inwhat, in a sense, like when they
come across each other, do theyget along or are they eating?
I'm telling you, possums poseno threat.
They don't fuck with possums.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Possums so nobody.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Okay, you got to worry about more or less like
squirrels and raccoons Becausethey try to like coexist in the
same areas attics, shit likethat.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I remember a raccoon got into my home once we left
the window open.
Oh my God, how was that?
What happened?
How was that experience?
Well, the experience was that Iwas actually in the kitchen
when this happened, and thewindow that we're talking about
is in the kitchen.
So I was facing away from thewindow and I was washing dishes
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right.
We had just recently put thefood for our cats right on the
side over there.
And then I'm turning around toget the other dish right and all
I see is my two cats looking atthis big ass raccoon eating
their food.
And I'm looking at it and I'mlike he was eating the cat's
food.
Yeah, he was eating the cat'sfood, and those my two cats were
just looking at him kind oflike going like what, what is he
doing?
(35:19):
Like it's a big fella dude.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
That's funny because you just unlocked it.
I just I completely I don'tknow how I forgot about this.
All right, so there was a ladythat we same shit raccoon, catch
a raccoon, grab the cage, setus up, this lady.
Oh, that's another thing too.
Don't ever move by somebody wholikes to feed stray cats.
I'm all down for cats too.
(35:43):
I had cats growing up.
Cats are cool.
That is the worst idea ever.
That brings more rodents Ever.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
I would say that it brings raccoons specifically.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
That's literally what a lot of pest control companies
use to bait them.
You put cat food in.
Yeah, that's true what you'resaying.
Yeah, we'll use tuna sardineswhen we put it in the cage, or
peanut butter, so they lovepeanut butter.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
They love peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
So every rodent is like peanut butter too, because
the mice they were saying that.
Mice, they love peanut buttertoo.
Yeah, they love peanut butter.
That's what cash is?
It's strong.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
It's strong.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
They smell it.
Yeah, so all right.
So we set up the for a ladywho's so cool too, bendito, oh
my God, I felt so bad for her.
She had a dope-ass jungle gymfor cats in the backyard.
Plexiglass mad tunnels.
Dope, she was a cat lady, madcat lady.
She wasn't crazy yet but she wasa cat lady.
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The office got a call and theyhit me up.
They're like we need you to gosomewhere right now.
I was like I'm gonna work out.
It's like nine o'clock, likemad late.
They're like, nah, we need pay,no worry, go over there, call.
I always call a client before.
I'm like when I'm on the wayand stuff like that.
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I call her, she in tig.
She's crying, everything okay,like I'm on my way for the
raccoon situation.
She's like, oh, my god, thankgod, I said it's a full crime.
I'm like, oh, you cryingbecause it is what's going on.
She's like you'll see when youget hit.
It was a, it was a pregnantraccoon oh no and when I went
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there to set up the cage it wasprobably 10 to 15 cats in my
yard and there was probably atleast 10 dead cats in my yard,
oh wow.
And when I mean 10 dead cats on, some like saw shit like
dismembered body parts.
Guts bro.
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The most of I've removedersbefore I've removed a lot of
shit before I've done dealt withrats.
That is the craziest shit I'veever seen.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Wow, this is something like.
You repressed that memory.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Because you're so traumatic.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
I pushed that shit way to the back.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I was like nah, nah, nah I was like what story stands
out to you?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I was like I haven't unlocked it yet, mind you.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I ain't Wow, that was big.
I ain't touching none of themdead bodies.
I was like you got to handlethat.
But the raccoon was there.
It was in a jungle gym, so youhad to go.
I had to catch him live.
I had to catch him live.
Crazy thing is that she wastrying to attack you too, yo bro
.
Probably was next man Yo fortype shit, I don't know.
Like I've been doing this for abit now, when you were trying
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to catch it were they alwaystrying to bite you, attack you,
yo bro, they always go for yourneck.
Really, yeah, they always gofor your neck.
I don't know why, like, when,like it presents itself, like,
because that happens a lot, buthow to like get up in there?
They got to type shit.
Wow, try to go right after me.
Wow, this is crazy.
(38:49):
Wow yeah no, shout out to thatlady.
She tipped me generously, butat that point it wasn't even for
that, bro, that shit was crazy.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
That was something.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I told the bro, and that's why, because, like she
lives like queens, queens, likeindustrial type, still in the
hood area, ish, like that, andlike yo they she went, I reckon,
wow.
So, guys, it's really importantto always have your pest
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control on the dial right, younever know what you're gonna
come across, right because Ihear a lot of stories all the
time.
But, being a homeowner, guys beon top of your property, make
sure you have no termites, makesure you have no beat Right,
make sure all these things, makesure you take care of these
rodents and make sure giveservice to your property at
least once a year.
And if you guys need Lewisinformation, we'll definitely
(39:39):
provide it to you guys.
He's my go to guy.
I've been working for almost ayear now so he's really good,
very reliable, always answer thecalls, which I appreciate.
So thank you for coming to ourplatform and we appreciate you
All.
Right, thank you, guys forwatching Suit up with bias
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Guys, take care.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Bye guys.
welcome to suit up with bias podcast episode nine.
I'm here with my co-host,angela bias, angela, and I'm
here with my special guest,louis pignatello.
Yes, and we are super excitedto have you here on our platform
.
Before anything, the Knicks won, guys.
Amen, man.
Finally we're going to roundtwo, second year.
I'm excited.
(00:33):
Hopefully the Knicks win.
So let's go, knicks, keep it up, guys.
So tell us about yourself 32,same age as you, you know, moved
to New York, always lived in.
New York but moved after Igraduated college for good.
Wasn't even supposed to get anexterminator, honestly.
Got my degree in business and Ikind of got conned into it.
(00:55):
You got conned into it.
Yeah, I got hired for acompletely different position.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh wow, how did that go.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Like can you explain that?
I knew it was going crazy whenhe told me to meet him at a
Starbucks.
Oh my God, that's so shady,that's like, where everyone
wants to meet and do businessright.
I had a similar story as you.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I went to a bookstore and there was this guy that was
saying oh, I had this businessidea.
I want to run it by you, let'smeet at starbucks.
And I'm like okay.
And then I realized wait,there's a pyramid scheme or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I swear to god, no, you gotta be careful with those.
I swear to god.
I had my girl was texting mygirlfriend during an interview.
I'm like, make sure this islegit such and such.
Nevertheless, it was legit.
It worked out perfect, thankyou.
It was a crazy opportunity,crazy like introduction into the
company, but it worked outgreat in the long run.
Um, yeah, man, so lewis, this isan exterminator.
(01:51):
He actually have done a lot ofthings for me and he helps a lot
of our clients.
But I have a funny story I wantto share.
So I was selling a property Ibelieve it was like westchester
county so where I was sellingthe property at right right it
was a single family and ofcourse they did an inspection to
the house.
In the inspection right it waspeople in the basement right
which the seller didn't evenknow, and we had basically
(02:14):
squatters in the basement.
And guess what it was?
It was raccoons and we nevereven knew about it.
So the homeowner didn't knowthat they had raccoons in the
basement, because it seems likethis homeowner never went to the
basement.
Yeah, it's crazy.
So we almost sold this homewith squatters, raccoons.
So eventually it was a wholefamily down there.
It was about four or five ofthem.
We got them out and we got thehome sold, but thank God to the
(02:36):
inspection that we were able tofind out that we had squatters
in this property.
All right, so we have you here.
Hey, I definitely want to askyou a really a big question.
It's a lot of first time homebuyers that we work with, right
yeah, you being an exterminatorfor how many years?
Going on three now, three years, great.
What do you recommend to thosebuyers out there that are first
time buyers, or any homeownerout there?
(02:57):
Why is it important to be incontact with exterminator and
what tips do you give to thepublic?
I will, for it.
Usually, I want to make surewhoever's showing you the
property make sure they haveextermination currently for that
property.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's a given.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
While you're looking around most older homes, condos,
apartments they have the oldspace heaters along the walls,
stuff like that.
They keep that same type ofdesign.
You want to check those out?
Actually, make sure and lookeverywhere else for the same
type of thing little holes,debris, shit.
(03:32):
Honestly, to be bland about it,anywhere you could see light
coming from a door, a wall, awall, but highly unlikely to
wall, obviously because you knowinside of the house, but
through a door, garage, entry.
If you're looking at a house,that's bad, all for it.
That's already showing signs ofmice activity.
It's usually not good.
Unfortunately, when you do realestate just in NYC or we're
(03:52):
doing New York and Connecticutand now we're going to Jersey as
well.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Okay, all right, so we're doing all three states
right now.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, my coverall, though.
In New York, main thing isroaches and rats.
To the contrary, as they say,the percentage has gone down.
It hasn't.
If anything, it's going up more.
It's going up more.
Yeah, it's going crazy.
Like I said, look for the holesand the main thing with the
roaches is when you're cookingand you get that grease buildup.
(04:19):
Obviously in a new home orapartment or condo you shouldn't
really be seeing that.
So if you see that, that's morewhat we call frass.
It's like where the eggs can be, where their poop could be, all
types of stuff.
You'll see dismembered piecesof them because the exoskeletons
rip off.
Look like wings and stuff likethat.
Not all of them fly, don'tworry, I don't like the ones
(04:41):
that fly either.
But yeah, in a nutshell, andwhen you look on your baseboards
too and I know it sounds verynitpicky Real estate agents have
definitely given me the sideeye and I don't care.
Look at the rent we pay.
I don't care, I'm with you.
You know, what I mean,especially if you're buying a
house.
Don't care about doing that.
Always look at the bottom ofyour walls, on your baseboards.
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Make sure there's no gaps.
That's like for ants, and at theend of the day, little roaches
can come through their beetlescan come through their worms.
You know stuff like that, so Ihave one that's also.
Um, actually I personallybought a property that actually
had termites in it so I wantedto get into the termite.
But I actually bought aproperty.
It was actually scary.
I bought a single family andthe wood was all eaten, right.
(05:26):
It had a huge problem withtermites and the house it
actually was eating one of themain beams, yeah, so I at one
point felt like the house was alittle tilted because the main
beam was basically eaten bythese termites right.
Of course, I called the termitecompany to come and clean it out
.
Are you seeing a lot of homeswith these termites?
Is this something they shouldbe aware of?
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Homeowners Not even trying tojust go along with the pod.
I literally did a termite jobtoday in Jersey.
Really.
Was it big.
It was a big home.
Okay, it was a big home.
Luckily the deterioration oftermite activity wasn't bad, so
just a regular spray job.
Tell us exactly what thetermite situation?
What exactly happened?
Why is this such a big dangerfor a home?
(06:07):
It's well, definitely with NewYork, because not a lot of homes
over here you're not allowed touse just straight cement, you
have to use wood.
Okay, so that's where they goto.
It's like the ant version of acarpenter bee.
Carpenter bees go after your,make little quarter-sized holes.
That's why sometimes you'd belike where'd this hole come from
(06:27):
?
It's from a carpenter bee andwow, yeah, no, it's super
annoying.
And they come by a bunchsometimes and it's nasty.
You think they're honeybees,but they're just carpenter bees
and it's the ant version of it.
They go to the wood, they eatthe wood, like when you go in
your attic sometimes and you seethat nice glow, you got good
wood.
Pause, no ditty, that's wherethey're going to be attracted to
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.
You start seeing the.
When you go outside, you seethe old pieces of wood that got
the cracks in them and stufflike that.
They still look like thatdeterioration.
It looks very rigid.
That's where they come from.
Yeah, it gets bad there's beena couple of times and always
check with who you're buying thehome from too, because you have
to get a certification letterto be able to sell your home.
If you have one termiteactivity and two how bad the
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termite activity is, yeah,Because you'll have to fix that
before you're able to sell yourhome.
So, yeah, it's a pain.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Definitely is.
I mean, what are the?
You probably had a lot ofstories of your house control
situations.
What was the most extreme onethat you've ever kind of it was
a good story there.
Man, I feel like extremesrelative, because man I feel
like for each animal is adifferent story which one stood
out to you the most like whenyou think of like cases that are
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kind of like come to mind asfast as possible.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Have you been chased by a red Coleman?
Oh, definitely.
There'll be people who call youand this happens a lot and it's
crazy, but it's, it's nuts howoften it happens.
A lot of people will call youand be like hey, I think I have
a squirrel in my attic.
I'm like I don't think you havea squirrel, I'll flip.
I automatically think you're aliar.
(08:08):
You're not going to know untilyou go up there and I don't
recommend anybody go up there.
So by colonists you're doingthe right thing, but still.
So you'll go in the attic andraccoons aren't going to attack
you off rip, unless they'repregnant, Unless they just had
babies.
Because they think they'recoming for babies, they're going
to go right after you.
It's nuts and that's happened acouple of times.
(08:29):
I'll go right up in the atticone time.
Oh man, Nasty, nasty place.
As soon as you open the atticdoors, you see the poop coming
down.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Oh my God, yeah, it's falling down, it's nuts.
So they basically never openedthe hatch or anything.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I don't think he's ever opened Gosh, at least since
who knows how long.
Wow, over 10 days easily.
So, just like mounds of itcoming down, yeah, it's not a
squirrel, I'm going to becompletely, I don't even have to
go up there.
He's like hey, can you confirmthat?
I'm like, yeah, I can confirmit by just looking at the pool.
But then, like sometimes youknow, you get those clients that
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just like they're all headedI'm like do you also handle the
bears?
I've gotten a bear call before,and not through the job, through
a friend of mine.
So you square up and know aboutthe bear.
I don't recommend that don'trecommend.
The thing is is like you're notgonna see much bears over here.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's more north yeah and that's the thing my man
scared of the city I went toschool up in saratoga.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh, so you, so you came across the city.
The guy who I was renting mycollege apartment from.
He called me he's like you dealwith bears.
And I was like I mean, I livedin Florida, I dealt with
crocodiles, I could deal withthem, and I dealt with panthers,
I could deal with a bear.
And he was like, well, I don'tknow how you could handle that,
but if you could, I got anopportunity for you and I didn't
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technically handle it, but Ihad some friends up there and
took a trip and handled it.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You handled it.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Gotcha.
The laws up there are waybetter so you can actually carry
a gun up there like a niceRemington.
Isn't there a thing called bearspray?
Yeah, oh, there is.
I didn't even know that.
Yeah, no, it's.
Oh there is.
I didn't even know that.
Yeah, no, it's absolutely Beerspray.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, is that effective?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
That's what I use.
Oh, that's what you use.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That's what you use to fight when they're coming at
you, Definitely it neutralizesthem right Completely.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
What it does to them.
I never knew this.
It does neutralize them.
I, if they're really pissed off, spray them and run.
Don't think you're going tosquare up with them, or nothing
like that, definitely spray them.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
They'll eventually kind of they back off, gotcha,
they back off, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So If you can keep a Remington on you up north, keep
a Remington on you up north aswell, honestly.
Yeah, you know, I actually had a.
That's where I met him.
A few months ago I actually hada bee house in my backyard.
How many months ago was this?
Probably a year, about a yearago, I had a bee house.
Now I got to call him againbecause the bee is back.
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It's my fault when we first didthe job, as I told you, because
you said you were doingconstruction there.
What I told you is I'm going toremove what they got on the
exterior.
You're going to get yourconstruction done in the
wintertime, as you said you weregoing to do, and now it's about
to be the summer.
You never got it and in thewintertime they're dead.
That's me, I know.
In the wintertime they're dead.
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You don't really have to worryabout something like that.
You're going to haveconstruction.
While you're doing theconstruction, make sure that's
taken care of and you're goingto go.
I would say yo, that B thing isno joke.
No, it's no joke.
You know how we found out aboutit, guys.
The reality we found out wasthat in my house and I noticed
there was Bs coming in thewindow, but it was like.
(11:53):
My wife was like whoa, I'venever seen so many bees.
You know how they operate.
Oh my god, they they scary.
I'll tell you that don't.
Don't go in the area, yeah yeah,you saw the suit I came out in,
so he had a whole suit up hadto go in this, like he went just
to world war three just nowwith these bees, he went in
there and took care of it.
He definitely I mean he killeda lot.
(12:14):
It was a lot of bees I sayshout out to the people with the
honeybees, because that is likethat's the real deal, ten times
worse.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Did you have that suit from the honeybee?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I have a version of that suit.
Yeah, ok, theirs is a littlebit thicker.
Okay, dude, it's nuts.
I've like we don't really havehoneybees over here.
I kind of want to do a jobbecause it looks it's really
easy.
I've dealt with honeybees andlike when I lived in florida I
lived in florida for 20 yearsyou deal with everything crazy
people, crazy animals, like it'snuts.
So you deal with alligators andall that everything everything
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and like growing up, you havelike awesome redneck friends
like what was the name of thatguy that died.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
He's a dude with like alligators and everything oh,
steve, irwin, yeah the crocodileyeah, he was nuts with that
that's not my damn stingray whata way to go out when you're
manhandling crocodiles every day.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It's terrible.
Were you handling like thatwith the crocodiles or not?
My friends were.
I got ballsy a couple times butlike, hey, they're crazy.
We have like a rope swing um inlike the neighborhood and, if
you can oh my god, it was nutslike you.
You go there.
Sometimes there's nothing.
You go there.
Sometimes there's gators allover, wow, and sometimes they
just go right in and hit overthe people's elbow.
(13:24):
You know what?
Which animal was so ugly?
Yeah, I see them a lot aroundhere.
Possums, dude, I knew it, youknow it's crazy.
There is one around here.
They're.
That is huge and he can't evenwalk.
They're nasty, I'm not gonnalie.
They're disgusting.
You handle them as well.
Yeah, no, I catch everything.
Did you see their teeth?
yeah, it's crazy you understandthey're not gonna bite you right
(13:46):
.
Really like they look scary man.
Yeah, they're honestly one ofthe coolest things ever.
They're like a big version of arat.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, they're a rodent.
They're a rodent.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
They're disgusting.
They are disgusting.
I'm not going to hold you there.
And when I lived in Florida, Ihad friends who had them as pets
.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I remember seeing a meme of a girl at nighttime kind
of walking beside a car withthe door open.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
She was outside and she's like oh, I found a friend
yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I remember seeing that one.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And like alright, they're omnivores, so
technically.
I see a lot of people do videoslike that with the possums.
That's what I'm saying.
They're harmless and they havelike a chemical that literally
makes them pass out.
Really, yeah, that's what thewhole playing possum thing like
over-simulated and dumb.
You know what I do when I'mdriving, angelo knows what I do
when I'm driving and I see anytype of raccoons or paws on a
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squirrel, nah, I drive afterthem and you see them running
their life on you know whatAngelo, oh my God.
I was driving after a squirreland yo after him, because I
don't let them come near myhouse.
So I chased him with my car.
I actually chased a positive.
He came in front of my house.
I was like out of my truck.
I was like I'm gonna chase him.
And I chased him and he went.
No, he's going everywhere.
(14:55):
Yeah, my pops that's a skunkone time and learned his lesson.
Oh and I don't mess with skunkshe learned his lesson very
quick for some reason, right infront of my property it rate
three or four.
They kill other skunks, butthose things, it's like the
smell comes into your house andit's like wow, how'd you get
that smell off?
Yeah, good question on you off,like if it gets like I'm saying
(15:15):
tomatoes, tomatoes, interesting, do you have to bathe in like
tomatoes?
No, yeah, oh man.
Rest in peace, vander.
My dog got sprayed by a skunkone time uh-huh nuts and like
they, if they get straight, likesprayed, like head-on, they can
get like um caesars, pardon meoh yeah, they can get like bad
caesars.
But he didn't.
That was cool.
But yeah, no, we were like itwas like eight, nine o'clock.
(15:37):
We're in stop and shop gettingmad cans of tomato sauce.
She had him in the basementshower.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Just bathe him in tomato sauce exactly because I
think I, I've seen that yeah, Ithink I've seen a video of
someone like getting sprayed Ithink it was a movie and then
they went into like a bathtub oflike red and it's tomatoes yeah
.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And man, that stuff, even still after the tomatoes it
kind of just like lingers, butyou know it gets it off.
But let me ask you a questionOn every.
You know it's different, it'sfour seasons, but it's different
.
It's four seasons, right, it'sdifferent seasons.
I'm on every season on a home,like, let's say, I'm the
homeowner, right?
Is there a treatment I shoulddo every different season as a
homeowner?
Or there's a treatment that weshould do every year?
That you think is the best todo every year depends where you
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live at, depends as a homeowner.
Let's say, new york city, newyork city, new york city, you
should have maintenance the yearin, year out.
What type of maintenance?
The full pest controlmaintenance.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And that is what?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Let's be specific because over here, like I said,
it really depends what you liveat, where in New York, let's say
Yonkers, new York, all right,we'll say right around here,
okay, all right.
Over here you can get away withlike a quarterly maintenance.
If you have a newer home,that's maintenance, like your
own maintenance.
(16:51):
If you have an older home, thatis still maintenance.
You want to make sure, like Iwas saying when you were looking
at your home, what you shouldlook for and stuff like that.
If you don't have any of that,you can get it with like a
quarterly maintenance.
Quarterly is literally byseason, every three months and
Drear, like the situation thatwe eventually ended up handling
for a friend of yours.
The mice situation.
Yeah, field, field mice a dime,a dozen in yonkers, especially
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your soil is amazing.
So that's gonna happen and it'sgonna call a lot of mice as a
soil okay, had um over here too.
I've dealt with a lot of inlayyonkers.
Like you have a lot of fieldmice in the attic.
In the attic, yeah, ohinteresting when you're attic
and then sometimes you go up youpoop all over your insulation.
Yeah, that happens.
All these mice just goteverywhere.
(17:34):
That's so disgusted by night.
That's why it's so funny thatthey say that they had like a
big thing percentage went downthis and that they use this to
do this, and now they'rechanging it all up because it
didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah so like for the summer.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Right now that the summer's coming, summer's the
hottest season, yeah, so whatservice do you think you should
provide in the summer?
I would always get full serviceduring the summer, regardless
if you're in the Yonkers, bronxor definitely Bronx, manhattan
hot cities.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
But when you?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
say full service, what?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
is full service for the public.
That's out there.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Always make sure you are good for road and activity.
If you have one mouse, it'sbetter than one mouse turning
into 10.
Gotcha, you know what I mean.
So you always want to make sureyou have pest control service
that's going to provide poisonboxes, to make sure that your
perimeter is always monitored.
Always make sure your house isnot easy, not vacant, for them
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to come in.
Make sure there's no holesaround.
Make sure there's no gapsaround stuff like that.
No gaps around stuff like that.
In the summertime, depending howyour house is, obviously in
your boiler room, you alwayswant to make sure there's
service there.
So, god forbid.
They usually go to boiler rooms, yeah, yeah, and then water
bugs do too.
Oh god, just remember, all ofour waste goes flushes out.
So, yeah, what goes out canalso come in.
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That's right.
Yeah, yeah, like, for instance,like for me.
I want to do the memory I wastelling I want to get the around
the whole my yard spray,because these bugs in the summer
get so annoying.
You can't even be outside withyour kids and you're getting
stung by all these bugs.
And you, you recommended me toto get a spray.
Yeah, definitely, because thathandles it down.
Now, granted, if we have aheavy rain season, we'll have to
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get it a couple times, but itdefinitely does help out.
That's why I love jersey.
Jersey you could like.
Jersey is the air is better.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
No, not even that's all, but like you can get even
though it's getting worse.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Because the construction over there is crazy
right now a lot of bought up.
It's insane how much they'rebuilding but they don't have,
like crazy, pest controllers.
So half the chemicals I coulduse for a company here I could
use as a homeowner over there.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So it's different laws in every state.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
New York is crazy, because you'll have a chemical
that you could use for like sixmonths and they ban it for like
four and then they let you useit again after.
It's crazy.
They do all types of stuff.
It's so volatile.
Yeah, I mean, there's certainchemicals that are super toxic.
There's some chemicals that areeco, but they still switch them
out.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
If you have kids, you gotta be careful, that super
careful.
Yeah, these chemicals arereally strong super careful.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I'm not a big fan of pets, so really I just got a
puppy.
Are you that?
Which thing in the world?
It's a multi-poole.
Oh, look at this, look at thisI'll show you the camera up
close later.
Is that?
It's like my daughter, it'slike the kid I never had, so
it's.
And it's a treater.
So, too, I like blow money onthis dog.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
My girlfriend does the same thing oh wow, oh, I
love them like very expensivedog I got lucky.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
My sister owns a dog business.
Nice clients didn't want tolike one of the clients that he
spent all the money on it'scrazy, he spent like six
thousand dollars on it and wasjust like we can't handle it
during the like.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
What a blessing.
It was such a blessing, oh myGod, so Wow.
My sister surprised me one day.
I was like here you go.
I was like looking for a dogtoo.
I was like, oh great, Evenbetter.
And my girlfriend's allergic?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Like so we got a cat and didn't do anything.
No, he ended up.
Yeah, he ended up actually hisfirst couple of days.
He actually I woke up and hewas on top of me with the dead
rat right on on the dude I can'thandle that.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You know it's great.
Oh my god, I really.
I am so like ah, the funnything is when you get a cat and
they, like, end up being scaredof them.
I've had a couple I had acouple of clients really, I
bought a cat to try to handlethis mice problem and now I'm
calling you because he's morescared of it than I am.
It happens it's really hit ormiss you know, when I used to go
to, when I used to live in thecity, in the bronx, I took the
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train you know the trains are.
It was this big rat, so, um,the driver of the the train.
So the rat was poison and hewas like drugged up, walking
left and right like that, likeall side to side, and I'm like,
oh, and he kept opening, closing, door, opening, but and
everybody will go crazy, I meanit was a really big rat and he
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kept.
You know, remember New YorkCity, those train station guys,
you're going to see it all.
So this rat was huge but he wasso poisonous he just kept going
left and right Like any secondhe was going to die.
So the guy just kept opening,closing the door and the train
was full.
So all those girls werescreaming, everybody was
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screaming in there.
I mean, this ride was huge.
Nah, there was a couple times,like when I used to take the
train to work and maybe, like ahomeless guy sleeping on the
train, you had like a rat withhim.
Oh yeah, like a pet no not a pet, just like he was there with
him and then like somebody wouldsit down and run right off and
then it's in like the cab bro.
That happens so much.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah, I mean those rats areeverywhere over here.
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That's why it's crazy how, likethe average rent's like 4 500.
I'm like that's nuts, yeah, newyork rats are a different.
It's not they eat the cablesout your car.
Oh yeah, they did that to mycar?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
yeah twice, what did it to your car?
The rats, they ate the cable.
We told me yeah, insane it'sinsane.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I don't know, man, these rats, I cannot stand them.
No, it's, isn't that you know.
It's crazy, though, like yourproblem is becoming a problem
for like everyone, the bees arefor some reason becoming crazy
really the pollen is nuts.
I don't know what is like, whathappened, but the bees are
crazy.
I used to be a parent with mykids.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, no.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Because they get staining so little.
Yeah, you don't know.
So that's the reason.
When we saw those bees, theywere coming in our house like in
and out, and I was like wherethese bees are coming from.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well, I'll tell you something, that you got more
business now.
That's how I met him, thoughthat was good that I met him as
much as I hate to say it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I'd be kind of like waiting for the summer.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You get to use your bee suit more.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, I hate that thing though It'd be hot.
Oh my God, it'd be so hot.
But yeah, it's cool.
Do you feel the stings if theytry to Is there a pest that you
think is the most disgustingthey all are Bedbugs.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh, bedbugs are so nasty, do you come?
Across that too, and then, ifyou kill them, all the blood
comes out from them.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I wish I could show the case.
So bedbug is probably the worstpest on your opinion.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I think it's mice and rats.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You sure about that?
I remember I went to a houseguys in the Bronx I was selling,
so one thing that happens inthe Bronx.
I do want to share this story.
So a lot of these developersare doing they're doing the egg
digging.
All those rats start goingeverywhere, right, and oh, geez,
yeah, that's serious.
Completely covered so all therats start going, like, for
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instance, when the Yankeesstayed right.
You saw, when the old Yankeescame to take it down, I was
hearing that literally rats werejust going up the hills in
Anderson Avenue, like literallygoing up there because I saw the
house there and she was likeAlex, you will come outside and
you will see like rats runningslowly up because they didn't
find no place.
So when, when these developersstarted digging and started
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building, that's where all thesemice and rats go everywhere.
So I went to a basement onetime and the homeowner haven't
been there for months and I'venever seen so many that rats
dead in the basement, like I waslike I wouldn't have said I
told the side I couldn't handleit and guess what?
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guys, I'll be honest with youguys, I didn't even list the
property, like I couldn't handleit, like that's how many rats
it were.
None of them ran on you.
No, I ran, I left.
I told you, I left the guy withthe paper in his hand and I
just I couldn't handle, it wasjust too many rats.
No, yeah, I'm trying to sellthis house, but I'm like damn
this is too many rats.
Oh my god, there's a there's asuper that literally went
(25:38):
through like something like thatand his wife was recording it
and bro he went screaming.
I'm so disgusted, I'm not a lotof you guys, I actually left,
like I left so fast he wascalling me.
I was like I'm sorry, man,there's too many rats in there.
Man, I can, I can't handle thissale with these rats yeah, Alex
gets squeezy around.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
He gets a little squeamish around rats.
That's why he told me to killthe rat that was around here.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, I cannot, oh that little guy.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I cannot deal with those shit.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I'll be honest with you, I can't deal with those
rats at all.
No, yeah, she's a funny thing,and I hate to say this because
I've lived here for a very longtime.
I was born here.
But you don't have to do pestcontrol in New York to have a
story about pest control.
It's so true, it's nuts.
I used to live on Fordham andGrant, well, specifically 190
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and Grant, which is right nextto Fordham, south Bronx, is
nasty with the rats you weresaying about when Yankee Stadium
got torn down.
It don't even have to be afterconstruction because, yes,
that's when the rodents do comeup.
But, like, walk into Fordham,there's a bodega on the corner
every night.
Walk up there, there's abuilding before and the super
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doesn't really take care of thebuilding Story of majority of
supers in the Bronx and thatlittle trash room right there.
Hundreds of them, yeah, andlike when you walk by, because
they hear you walking by is whenthey start running out and they
don't have bones so you go towalk, you step on them.
It's like stepping on jello,like yeah, and then they would
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squeeze up from underneath yourfeet and run off.
Oh God.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I didn't know that they don't have bones.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
No, they have no bones.
That's the reason they couldfit anywhere.
Right, they could fit anywhereLike a hole this big yeah, a
full-size rat could get through.
Oh, it's crazy.
Oh my God, they like look, theyhave videos of it, but I've
literally seen it where afull-size rat will come through
a hole like this and you justsee the squeezing.
They don't stop, it contorts.
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It's crazy.
And they move fast too.
Yeah, no, they move really fast, and they've killed dogs before
because they'd be that big.
There's literally some ratsdown in the city that are
borderline the size of likeYorkies and Chihuahuas.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, I remember seeing a video of a New York rat
right, dragging like a deadpigeon.
Oh yeah, oh.
I did see that story Like.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Only in New York you saw the one in the subway where
he took those pizzas.
Yeah, oh yeah, I saw the one inthe city that took that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw thatyeah.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I saw that on TikTok.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
That he took the pizza and it was a big slice.
It wasn't a small slice, no, no, it was a New York slice.
Yeah, it was like no, this iscrazy.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, the permanent residence in New York, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
That's why it's good to have always a pest control,
especially when you'repurchasing a home.
Right, definitely get sometreatment before you purchase a
home, before you move in, have apest control, come in there and
definitely give you the servicethat they deserve.
Not for sure.
Is there a tip that you wouldlike to give people out there?
Is there a specific tip thatyou would like to give?
Do you do only homeowners oryou do with renters?
(28:45):
Yeah, I do rent.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I do everything.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Renters commercial we do it all I specifically for
people who are renting ashomeowners, shout out to y'all
Y'all good, unless you buying ahouse in the city, and then, yes
, listen to this as well Forapartments and condos, if you're
renting, always make sure yourbuilding has a legit pest
control company for yourbuilding.
(29:09):
Other than that, always knowthat you could take that off
your rent.
You could always call a pestcontrol company and then take
that right to your office andsay that's going off my rent
because they have to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Oh, they have to, they have to Okay.
So if you call your own pestcontrol guy and they come in,
they do the thing.
They reduce the rent.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
What they try to do is you have to also follow up,
do your writing work and stufflike that.
And I mean this you call themthe first time.
They're going to have the pestcontrol guy come out or he won't
come out, Regardless.
If he doesn't fix your problem,you hit him up again.
You have to do it a couple oftimes.
You call him like two, threetimes.
You let him know.
If they don't solve the problem, that's when you can go ahead
(29:52):
and call somebody else.
I had a leak.
Oh my God, Tell me Storiesgalore, man.
They're one of the worstinfestations that I've ever seen
In the city Dykeman area,Around Dykeman.
And she had a baby too.
I was like, damn, it's terribleand fumigation ain't cheap.
Roach fumigation, bed bugfumigation any fumigation,
(30:14):
anything with fumigation, notcheap.
So if you want it done right,you want it cheap, you're going
to go to Home Depot, spend about$100 in those raid cans, get no
result.
Then you still end up having tocall somebody and there you go.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
So paid over $1,000.
He's a two-bedroom apartment.
Wow, yeah, bad.
And she was stressed.
(30:34):
I was like no, no, no, becauseshe called up a couple of times,
such and so forth.
She called 311, filed a ticket.
Nothing, always do that too.
Call 311 because it's not amaintainable living space.
So you have the right to dothat.
Oh, that's a no, yes, and youalways want to have that written
down.
Ie 311.
(30:55):
So when you do go, do a pestcontrol person get that
fumigation, have to spend over athousand dollars, whatever the
case may be, you can bring thatto them, have all the back of
paperwork.
I've done this step.
I've done this step.
I've done this step.
I made a report.
Boom, they have to.
They act like they don't a lotof times.
Push the button, they comply.
They have to cause that.
(31:15):
Fine.
So what happened to the lady?
She got an appointment right.
She eventually got it right.
They took that they saidalright, boom, they tried to
break it down.
They were like we'll break itdown into thirds.
Each month she shout out to mySpanish people Boricua, she
wasn't having it.
As you know, we don't put upwith a lot of shit, and that's
(31:37):
one of them.
Again, pushed over sucks.
So she stood up for herself,got it for the month, and she
was good.
Wow, for herself, got it forthe month and she was good wow,
that's good you know, you got toknow your rights too right.
And also, like I say to thesehomeowners um if you have also
renters in your place, you know,do good for them.
You know I'm that.
I'm that landlord.
Like I like to do good for mytenants, I'm do good for them if
(31:58):
they call me.
They told me they got rodents,I'll take care of instantly.
You know I got lewis here, sowe're definitely calling him for
everything we need.
Yeah, but they got you goingthrough.
Right now you kind of have toyeah right, you can't give them
no right to want to not pay rentbecause God they got you out
about the Bulls right now.
It's terrible.
How's that squatters law goingon?
Not raccoons, I mean people,though.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So the squatter law actually is good now.
Yeah, there's no more squatterrights.
Nice, now it's completelytrespassing.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Right, because they're not protected under the
tenant rights anymore.
I don't understand how it was.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So there's no more squatter rights.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It's just an arcade, only raccoons got rights.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, the only one that got rights to it.
They see, louis Bro.
No, we can't kill him.
They got to evict him for us.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
They got to evict him .
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Make sure your pest control guy always takes them
over 10 miles too, or they'llcome right back.
Oh, 10 miles.
I always tell people to do thistoo.
See, I don't mind because I domy job, so I really don't care.
If y'all want to make sure togo get some spray paint.
Spray paint is till we do likea cage method.
They get caught in the cage.
No, take them off the property,take some spray paint.
(33:08):
Spray paint that motherfuckerBright orange, whatever you want
to do.
So if he does get caught again,if you see the spray paint, you
know they didn't do their jobright, because he will come back
.
They'll come back.
If it ain't 10 miles, they willcome back, really they will
come back.
Is it it through their scent orsomething?
The scent is insane gosh.
(33:28):
Now raccoons are fire too.
If you get past, like I didn'teven know the bad experiences
with raccoon, they fight.
Really I'm telling florida gota bad rep.
It's pretty bad, but it got abad rep because new york is
pretty bad too.
So but like florida, you seesome cool shit and you see some
raccoons that be on it.
Yo, even over here too, likethey'll help each other break
out of a cage.
If they've seen one get caughtbefore, they got memories, they
(33:51):
got thumbs, they could move likeus better because they like
parkour.
Do they eat rodents, they eateverything.
They're smart though.
They eat mouses and all that.
They eat all that.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Damn.
Alex is about to get a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, I'm about to get a raccoon.
Go nab up a baby anddomesticate it, like my redneck
fans.
So how is it with the raccoonsand the possums?
I'm curious about that, as inwhat, in a sense, like when they
come across each other, do theyget along or are they eating?
I'm telling you, possums poseno threat.
They don't fuck with possums.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Possums so nobody.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Okay, you got to worry about more or less like
squirrels and raccoons Becausethey try to like coexist in the
same areas attics, shit likethat.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I remember a raccoon got into my home once we left
the window open.
Oh my God, how was that?
What happened?
How was that experience?
Well, the experience was that Iwas actually in the kitchen
when this happened, and thewindow that we're talking about
is in the kitchen.
So I was facing away from thewindow and I was washing dishes
(34:58):
right.
We had just recently put thefood for our cats right on the
side over there.
And then I'm turning around toget the other dish right and all
I see is my two cats looking atthis big ass raccoon eating
their food.
And I'm looking at it and I'mlike he was eating the cat's
food.
Yeah, he was eating the cat'sfood, and those my two cats were
just looking at him kind oflike going like what, what is he
doing?
(35:19):
Like it's a big fella dude.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
That's funny because you just unlocked it.
I just I completely I don'tknow how I forgot about this.
All right, so there was a ladythat we same shit raccoon, catch
a raccoon, grab the cage, setus up, this lady.
Oh, that's another thing too.
Don't ever move by somebody wholikes to feed stray cats.
I'm all down for cats too.
(35:43):
I had cats growing up.
Cats are cool.
That is the worst idea ever.
That brings more rodents Ever.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
I would say that it brings raccoons specifically.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
That's literally what a lot of pest control companies
use to bait them.
You put cat food in.
Yeah, that's true what you'resaying.
Yeah, we'll use tuna sardineswhen we put it in the cage, or
peanut butter, so they lovepeanut butter.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
They love peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
So every rodent is like peanut butter too, because
the mice they were saying that.
Mice, they love peanut buttertoo.
Yeah, they love peanut butter.
That's what cash is?
It's strong.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
It's strong.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
They smell it.
Yeah, so all right.
So we set up the for a ladywho's so cool too, bendito, oh
my God, I felt so bad for her.
She had a dope-ass jungle gymfor cats in the backyard.
Plexiglass mad tunnels.
Dope, she was a cat lady, madcat lady.
She wasn't crazy yet but she wasa cat lady.
(36:40):
The office got a call and theyhit me up.
They're like we need you to gosomewhere right now.
I was like I'm gonna work out.
It's like nine o'clock, likemad late.
They're like, nah, we need pay,no worry, go over there, call.
I always call a client before.
I'm like when I'm on the wayand stuff like that.
(37:00):
I call her, she in tig.
She's crying, everything okay,like I'm on my way for the
raccoon situation.
She's like, oh, my god, thankgod, I said it's a full crime.
I'm like, oh, you cryingbecause it is what's going on.
She's like you'll see when youget hit.
It was a, it was a pregnantraccoon oh no and when I went
(37:21):
there to set up the cage it wasprobably 10 to 15 cats in my
yard and there was probably atleast 10 dead cats in my yard,
oh wow.
And when I mean 10 dead cats on, some like saw shit like
dismembered body parts.
Guts bro.
(37:42):
The most of I've removedersbefore I've removed a lot of
shit before I've done dealt withrats.
That is the craziest shit I'veever seen.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Wow, this is something like.
You repressed that memory.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Because you're so traumatic.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
I pushed that shit way to the back.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I was like nah, nah, nah I was like what story stands
out to you?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I was like I haven't unlocked it yet, mind you.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I ain't Wow, that was big.
I ain't touching none of themdead bodies.
I was like you got to handlethat.
But the raccoon was there.
It was in a jungle gym, so youhad to go.
I had to catch him live.
I had to catch him live.
Crazy thing is that she wastrying to attack you too, yo bro
.
Probably was next man Yo fortype shit, I don't know.
Like I've been doing this for abit now, when you were trying
(38:28):
to catch it were they alwaystrying to bite you, attack you,
yo bro, they always go for yourneck.
Really, yeah, they always gofor your neck.
I don't know why, like, when,like it presents itself, like,
because that happens a lot, buthow to like get up in there?
They got to type shit.
Wow, try to go right after me.
Wow, this is crazy.
(38:49):
Wow yeah no, shout out to thatlady.
She tipped me generously, butat that point it wasn't even for
that, bro, that shit was crazy.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
That was something.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I told the bro, and that's why, because, like she
lives like queens, queens, likeindustrial type, still in the
hood area, ish, like that, andlike yo they she went, I reckon,
wow.
So, guys, it's really importantto always have your pest
(39:18):
control on the dial right, younever know what you're gonna
come across, right because Ihear a lot of stories all the
time.
But, being a homeowner, guys beon top of your property, make
sure you have no termites, makesure you have no beat Right,
make sure all these things, makesure you take care of these
rodents and make sure giveservice to your property at
least once a year.
And if you guys need Lewisinformation, we'll definitely
(39:39):
provide it to you guys.
He's my go to guy.
I've been working for almost ayear now so he's really good,
very reliable, always answer thecalls, which I appreciate.
So thank you for coming to ourplatform and we appreciate you
All.
Right, thank you, guys forwatching Suit up with bias
podcast and please like,subscribe and comment please,
and stay tuned to our nextpodcast.
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Guys, take care.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Bye guys.
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