A high end apartment building in the US capital is overrun with huge cat sized rats, forcing residents to take extreme measures like sleeping on balconies. We’re keeping weapons near their beds. I started hearing them under my bed and I, yeah, I found them in my pantry. Despite the luxury amenities of the flats in Dupont Circle, 78 out of 145 surveyed residents reported seeing rats in their units in the past six weeks. With the problem so severe that DC Health ordered the building management to address the active rat Burrows. Residents fed up with the lack of action from the management company, Equity Residential, have organized to demand solutions and share their harrowing experiences, including one tenant who left a trapped rat in the leasing office to make a point no one has been able to like personally sear out like my apartment or anything. The rat infestation has become a major quality of life issue for the tenants. Many of whom are considering moving out despite the hefty lease breaking penalties.