{"id":2284,"date":"2022-08-15T01:54:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2022-08-15T01:54:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:54:36","slug":"single-mom-loses-kids-childhood-memories-to-rats-in-placerville-storage-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/08\/15\/single-mom-loses-kids-childhood-memories-to-rats-in-placerville-storage-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Mom Loses Kids’ Childhood Memories To Rats In Placerville Storage Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"
BY MARLEE GINTER, CBS SACRAMENTO<\/pre>\n
A woman was disgusted with what she found crawling through her storage unit. She now wants others to know the risks with rats — before they rent.<\/p>\n
There’s a fence between Katie Pinkerton and her old storage unit now and she’s quite OK with that.<\/p>\n
“The urine and the feces, almost everything in my storage unit was chewed,” said Pinkerton. “I mean just disgusted, You don’t think when you rent storage you’re going to have a problem with rats.”<\/p>\n
Pictures show feces and multiple dead rats inside her belongings at her old storage unit. That’s what her kids found going through their things while she was at work.<\/p>\n
“We lifted up a few boxes, me and my sisters and when we tried to clear more stuff out there was rat poop all over the place and there were a couple more dead rats,” said her son Michael.<\/p>\n
Katie reached out to Placerville Self Storage — was told to fill out a claims form and says she then received an email saying she’d get a $500 reimbursement. But that never came.<\/p>\n
CBS13 reached out to the company and a representative sent an email saying according to policy they only discuss issues with tenants but Brian Watson did write:<\/p>\n
“We do have monthly pest control service. Tenants can put their own pest control as they wish in their unit and we do provide bait as courtesy as well for their unit(s)”<\/p>\n
Aside from the money, Pinkerton says what hurts most as a single mom is that she lost most of her children’s childhood memories including their homemade artwork.<\/p>\n
“That really hurt, because those are things that I can never get back,” said Pinkerton.<\/p>\n
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