A Southampton rental that turns every Friday does not get a normal rodent visit. Cleaning crews prop doors. Trash sits. The next party brings food. Mice and rats use the same garage gap and the same torn sweep that last week’s guests never mentioned. If we only bait and leave, the next turnover inherits the hole.
Hampton Pest Management wants exclusion on the ticket during the vacant window, not a promise that a perimeter spray will invent a sealed door. East Hampton and Sag Harbor rentals share that clock.
Use the empty house
Turnover morning is when we can see daylight under the garage door, check the kitchen toe kicks after a deep clean, and photograph droppings before someone mops the evidence. Tell us the lockbox code plan, which hours the house is actually empty, and whether a plumber or landscaper was just on site. New holes show up after other trades.
If guests already reported scratching in a wall, that room is the file. A whole-house fog because the calendar says rodents is how you miss the one gap.
Exclusion is often owner or property-manager work
We can name the opening. We can seal some of them. We will not imply we rebuilt a threshold if the property manager still owns that repair. Door sweeps, utility penetrations, and a torn screen on a crawl vent are the usual list. Food left for the next rental is a sanitation note, not a reason to skip the gap.
Second homes that sit dark for ten days then explode with a wedding weekend are a different occupancy pattern. Activity after the party is not proof the last service failed. It is proof the opening and the food were still there.
What we record
Species evidence, travel route, which door or vent, and who is assigned the repair. Photographs of daylight under a door travel better than a verbal “there was a mouse.” Pets in a rental need a note. So do kids’ rooms.
Rodent control and wildlife are related when squirrels and mice share a roofline. Keep them as separate lines if the evidence is different.
Closeout before the next arrival
The file should say what was sealed, what is still open, and when the next check is. If we could not get in because the cleaner ran long, that belongs in the record. Use contact with town, turnover day, and photos of the gap. Southampton and Westhampton share a fork. They do not share your garage sweep. More notes are on the blog.