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Can Rats Affect Condo Prices?

A recent article in the New York Sun newspaper asked the question after video footage of a rodent-infested KFC in Greenwich Village got wide play. The developer of a nearby condo project thinks the news will fade from memory and not impact sales. Unlike the smell of drycleaning chemicals exhaust from a smelly restaurant that are lingering, rats fall under the "out of sight, out of mind" category of nuisance.

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