Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Louisiana

I live in Louisiana and i work for a cleaning service. My job is to go into vacant apartments after repairs, painting and carpet cleaning are done, to clean everything everything else up. At many of the apartment complexes i am sent to i have learned of a terrible practice that is very common. In many low income apartments, people move out in the middle of the night and leave their fridges full of food. Eventually the electricity gets shut off and all that food rots and attracts bugs. These apartment complexes are too cheap to keep buying new fridges so they have me clean them instead. I don't know if they fail to understand this or just don't care but the bugs get under and behind panels and into the inner workings of the fridge and there's no way for me to get them out. So even though i can make the fridge look sanitary, it in fact is still filled with bugs. I think it is absolutely atrocious that they would rent these bug filled fridges out to people. This has to be illegal, right? Who do i tell? What can be done about this?

Asked on 1/27/11, 3:17 pm

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You can inform the department of health.

Answered on 1/27/11, 4:03 pm

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