Look for secure hidden spots around your apartment building where rats are likely to hide.
Rats in ceiling apartment.
Other good places include behind or under appliances walls and pipes or inside a rat hole if you ve found one.
This will be one of the best if not most accessible places to trap the rodent.
If you can gain access through the attic great.
Vent panels are the next best option if you unscrew them.
A hole as small as a dime can be all a mouse needs to enter your apartment so be sure to check the exterior of your unit especially if you live on the ground floor.
If you see anywhere that has rat trails nests or feces place a bait box there.
Both rats and mice need to gnaw on hard items to control the growth of their teeth.
Along ceiling joists set two traps side by side with baits at opposite ends putting bait in front of mice traveling either direction.
Mice rats and other pests are extremely talented when it comes to getting where they shouldn t.