Santa Monica neighborhoods we cover
- North of Montana
- Gillette’s Regent Square
- Northeast Neighbors
- Midtown
- Sunset Park
- Ocean Park
- Main Street
- Downtown Santa Monica
Where rodents get in around Santa Monica
Palisades Park and Ocean Avenue
Palisades Park runs along the bluffs above the beach, planted with palms and tall trees, with hotels and apartment buildings across Ocean Avenue. Palms give roof rats shelter and a path, and the buildings facing the park sit right beside that canopy.
Deep lots north of Montana
The deep lots north of Montana Avenue have mature trees, tall hedges, guest houses and garages set back from the main house. Every outbuilding is another roofline, and roof rats move along hedges, fences and branches from one structure to the next.
Ocean Park’s older buildings
Early 1900s houses and apartments in Ocean Park are wood-framed buildings with crawlspace vents, old chimneys and plumbing reworked over a century. Close to the beach, Norway rats burrow and come in at ground level, through torn vent screens and gaps around pipes.
Restaurants downtown and on Main Street
The Third Street Promenade, Montana Avenue and Main Street are lined with restaurants and cafes, often with apartments above or behind them. Trash areas, loading doors and shared walls between storefronts are where rodents find food and a way in, for the businesses and the homes nearby.
In apartment buildings, rodents move between units through shared walls, pipe runs and garages, so a problem can start next door.
