Mother Of 3 Says Her Apartment's Infested With Snakes

Snake phobia

A Southaven, Mississippi mother of three says she's dealing with a snake infestation at her apartment.

Kimberly Acron told FOX13 Memphis she's spotted six snakes over a span of two and a half days, which included one found in her bathtub.

“Me getting in the tub with a snake, I got in the tub and stepped on the snake and fell out of the tub. That was the final straw,” Acron told FOX13.

Acron shared a video of the snake still crawling around her bathtub with FOX13, which shows it slithering under the shower curtain. The Rocky Creek Apartments resident said she injured her ankle when the snake sighting caused her to fall out of the tub.

Acron told FOX13 she's requested for the apartment complex to move her and her three kids to a hotel or different unit until the snake infestation is handled.

“We are not okay with staying here and it seems the apartments are giving us the runaround. No one wants to answer questions” Acron said.

Acron shared several other videos and photos of the snakes with FOX13, nothing that she found one in her bathroom by the toilet, which she said bit her son. She said she found another snake near the laundry room and one in the kitchen, which was shown on video slithering inside a pizza box the family used to trap it.

FOX13 said it reached out to Rocky Creek apartments several times before finally being told the regional manager received its messages but was out of the office all day doing property inspections. The apartment complex's parent company, Makowsky Ringel Greenberg, LLC, also responded to inquiries late Thursday night:

"We have learned that there is a three bedroom apartment which will become vacant next week, on October 28th, and we will be happy to allow Ms. Macron to transfer to that apartment if she desires. We will discuss that with her tomorrow and will offer her a concession. That said, it is important to note that Ms. Macron is not the leaseholder of record on her current apartment, as two other people are the legal leaseholders in the apartment."

A local exterminator identified the snakes as rat snakes, which are not venomous and likely followed rats inside for food, FOX13 reports.

Acron said apartment maintenance had previously tried to fix the problem by sealing holes near the Air Conditioning and water heater and discovered rat droppings.

Acron added that she looked over her lease and saw no mention of snakes. A local attorney told FOX13 the Mississippi Landlord/Tenant act does not mention anything about snakes, but added that the act is written in a way that is highly favorable to the landlord over the tenant.

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