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LOS ANGELES – It’s not a title Los Angeles<\/a> is proud of. Los Angeles has the biggest rat problem in America, according to a new Yelp report.<\/p>\n The popular crowd-sourcing review site claims Los Angeles had more Yelp searches for rodent services<\/a> than any other city.<\/p>\n “I grew up in L.A. and I will say there is a rat problem out here,” said L.A. resident Andrew Diego. “Downtown, that’s where they’re at.”<\/p>\n Residents in the City of Los Angeles have a lot to say about rats roaming the streets.<\/p>\n “I’ve only seen a couple of rats here and there,” said Albert Ceja. “I think it’s mostly roaches more than rats,” said Keisy Noj.<\/p>\n Some were not surprised to hear that. Others were convinced the Empire State would take that title.<\/p>\n “I’ve been to New York, they’re everywhere,” said Andrew Diego.<\/p>\n “I don’t know why we were reviewed that much when New York literally has them living and breathing there,” said Keisy Noj.<\/p>\n But rats are not running around city streets.<\/p>\n “They chew the pipes and that’s how they get in,” said Enrique Gonzalez.<\/p>\n Enrique Gonzalez, who owns EG Rodent Smoke Testing, is a pest control technician who services the L.A. area. He says as cooler weather rolls in, rats and other creatures will look for warmer places, like your home.<\/p>\n “The climate is changing right now, it’s more winter, so they look for shelter,” said Gonzalez.<\/p>\n According to Yelp, demand for pest control professionals has risen across the country. The company reports a 21% year-over-year increase in “rodent” searches on Yelp.<\/p>\n So what can you do to prevent these pesky critters from entering?<\/p>\n “Go outside your property, look for any holes, a quarter or pinky finger size, just get it sealed because those creatures will look for shelter and eventually get in,” said Gonzalez.<\/p>\n According to that Yelp report, the second-biggest rodent hotspot is San Francisco. Third is New York.<\/p>\n Los Angeles<\/a>U.S.<\/a>Housing<\/a>Business<\/a>Skid Row<\/a>Downtown LA<\/a>Homeless Crisis<\/a>Instastories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – It’s not a title Los Angeles is proud of. Los Angeles has the biggest rat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[387,1184,6858,19262,1011,2444,48,52,6086,51,47,137,50,49,100,425,6645,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-25063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-dtla","11":"tag-homeless-crisis","12":"tag-housing","13":"tag-instastories","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-headlines","16":"tag-la-los-angeles-county","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-county","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-series","24":"tag-skid-row","25":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}