09-15-2007, 04:51 PM
Other than burning the building down?
My own recommendation that might be overkill but it almost needs to be nuclear to deal with all the different people. Put the cats in cages. Give them a dip or at least a bath and a thorough grooming, then treat with something like Advantage or fresh flea collars. Get all the bedding and any other textiles near the floor dry cleaned or whatever the cleaners recommend (call a couple of cleaners to get more than one opinion). Give all the units a good cleaning and and vacuuming (throw out the bags after) then have a professional pest control spray them. You can let the cats out of the cages after a week (or three) of no fleas.
I had a massive infestation of fleas in a cement finished basement/garage about 20 years ago. My pants looked like someone threw a tablespoon of pepper on them after a minute or two. The landlord called pest control and they sprayed the baseboards all around the house and the equivalent area downstairs plus around the water heater. The pest control might have also fogged the basement but I do not remember for sure. I stayed with family for three nights because the fresh spray gave me a bit of a headache. Everything was better (fleas and smell) when I went home. Neither I nor the previous tenant had pets, so I do not know where they came from since there was no evidence of rats or mice.
My own recommendation that might be overkill but it almost needs to be nuclear to deal with all the different people. Put the cats in cages. Give them a dip or at least a bath and a thorough grooming, then treat with something like Advantage or fresh flea collars. Get all the bedding and any other textiles near the floor dry cleaned or whatever the cleaners recommend (call a couple of cleaners to get more than one opinion). Give all the units a good cleaning and and vacuuming (throw out the bags after) then have a professional pest control spray them. You can let the cats out of the cages after a week (or three) of no fleas.
I had a massive infestation of fleas in a cement finished basement/garage about 20 years ago. My pants looked like someone threw a tablespoon of pepper on them after a minute or two. The landlord called pest control and they sprayed the baseboards all around the house and the equivalent area downstairs plus around the water heater. The pest control might have also fogged the basement but I do not remember for sure. I stayed with family for three nights because the fresh spray gave me a bit of a headache. Everything was better (fleas and smell) when I went home. Neither I nor the previous tenant had pets, so I do not know where they came from since there was no evidence of rats or mice.