05/15/2026
Leasing company sealed living squirrels in my walls, what do I do??
live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I put in a maintenance ticket back in January to have holes sealed up at the edge of my roof where squirrels had gotten in and I could hear them chewing at the wood in the walls on a regular basis. Month after month I would contact the leasing company for my house anyway I could to ask when this was going to get resolved.
Yesterday they finally came out with a crane and did this metal work and expanding foam job, cutting down my little library to reach it.
I thanked them for finally relieving me from the sounds of squirrel's chewing apart the insides of the house I'm living in. Unfortunately about 2 hours later I hear the same chewing sounds I've heard for months, but this time it was obvious that the squirrels were trapped inside my house and trying to get out.
The picture I've attached is one of the squirrel's arms struggling through a tiny opening in the metal work.
I've created multiple maintenance tickets of high importance both yesterday and today, today's being listed as an emergency. I tried calling their office and got a voicemail, and after hours I tried calling them and selected I had an emergency maintenance request, but each time it rings a few times and then automatically hangs up on me. I try to leave a voicemail and it just says their voice mailbox is full.
I don't know what to do. I can't get a hold of anyone at the leasing company, the roof is three stories up, and those squirrels have probably 18 hours max before they die of dehydration, at which point my heart will break and I'll have multiple animals rotting in my walls.
Like a horror novel I can hear them just scratching and chewing desperately trying to get out of what has been their home for months, and has become their crypt.
What do I do? Who do I contact? My current only plan is to get up as early as possible and drive to their headquarters and hope that someone's actually there. (Sometimes there's just no one at the office in the middle of the week).
I'm just listening to animals dying in my walls and the people who sealed them in there have made themselves unreachable.
