Counted 14 ant trails along my kitchen baseboards in one afternoon and finally called someone
I kept telling myself a few ants in a Decatur rental were normal, but once I actually put down tape and counted 14 separate trails in one afternoon, the math stopped working in my favor, so now I'm wondering how many other tenants just live with it instead of calling a pro.
People just normalize stuff til it gets out of hand. Same thing happens with a leaky faucet, that one weird outlet that sparks, the smoke detector that chirps for weeks. You tell yourself it's fine and then one day you do the actual math and realize it's been months. Tenants especially don't want to bother the landlord or get blamed, so they just keep the ant spray under the sink and move on.