Comments 2 brandon august 17th 2015.
Do ground floor apartments get more bugs.
First floor apartments are sometimes less expensive than units on higher floors can come with private outdoor spaces and simply make more sense for folks with babies in strollers dogs to walk or mobility issues.
This is part 1 of a 2 part series on bugs.
Before the pandemic living in a ground floor apartment often got a bad rap in nyc.
However i do recall seeing mega huge ones around the ground floors or in the elevator not so much on my 10th floor place.
Make sure your community has a good pest control system in place.
But there are drawbacks you should know about like pests break ins and more noise.
If you don t live in a place like nyc it will probably never get this bad.
Living on the bottom floor makes your apartment a much easier target and therefore you ll have to take extra.
Pests can access the bottom apartment floor more easily but if you don t mind killing the occasional roach or have a great plan for pest control you re good to go.
More susceptible to pests.
A ground floor apartment also means you won t have to worry about catching the coronavirus from riding the elevator with your neighbors.
Higher chance of crime.
When you live on the ground floor you re generally more susceptible to getting unwanted pests which can be a major turn off for some renters.
In this article we ll give you a few tips to prevent bugs from making a home in your apartments.
Other than that being on the ground floor level will help you get out of your apartment faster.
Of course that doesn t mean there aren t things you can do as a resident to reduce the prevalence of bugs in your apartment.
The more clutter there is the more spaces are available for insects to hide.
After recently moving in to a first floor apartment there are a couple of cons that weren t mentioned.
As far as i can tell the bottom floors do get the most bugs rats etc.
Renting a bottom floor apartment in tcc apartments.
These types of apartments tend to give you less natural light and if your windows face the street less privacy.
Being so close to the earth these bottom dwelling units are unfortunately much more susceptible to bugs and pests.