Professional exterminators can get rid of bed bugs if they have experience and knowledge to do so AND if they come back repeatedly at approx. 2 week intervals until all bed bugs and bites are gone AND if they carefully inspect and treat all infested units.

People get rid of bed bugs all the time. There is no reason to put up with them. Moving can indeed transport them to a new home.

My advice would be to cooperate fully, do whatever prep work they require before treatment, and make sure they keep following up until there are no more signs.

One thing that often goes wrong is that neighbors still have them and they keep coming. If your landlord is treating 4 units, that’s a good sign as long as others have also been inspected professionally.

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Gary Broberg
http://bedbugexpert.org

I’m the most caring person in the world. I love all people…rich or poor, young or old.
could I help in a shelter now after what I’ve gone through? please don’t hate me for saying no. it’s not the people. it’s the bugs. I just can’t stand it no more. I just can’t stand it.

I go camping, bugs, racoons, frogs, fish, birds, and so much more are part of the wonders I look foward to. even mosquito bites are quite welcome. I’m in no way a wimp or panzy. but bedbugs…it’s like I got PTSD from them vampires.

I have scars on my arms, legs, feet, and body. I got bit on my face too.
how can anyone even take a chance in getting bedbugs again…yet the more I think about it, the more I realise that it’s only a matter of a few years and the WHOLE USA will have bedbugs. not just some in the major citys, but everyone. the country folk too. from sea to bedbug sea. and why even try to get rid of them when you’ll just get them again in a week or two from your co worker, or your doctor, or your lawyer, or your dentest, or your butcher, or your local movie house, or your local police, or the firemen will bring them to your house…..or your boy friend, girlfriend, mother, father. and watch out for mayor Bloomberg, he’s not doing anything to stop you from getting them from him or anyone else he knows.
sorry if it seems like I’m mad, but yes, this country will get fully infested with bedbugs to the point that, there is no point in home extermination. after all, why should anyone spents the money needed to only get them again in a week or two? and it will come to that because we folks here have not been able to drum some sence into the people who could spread the word for us.

pardon me, I’m just tired.
buggedinbrooklyn

if you can’t remember how I found out that I had bedbugs at my dad’s house, I’ll remind you….
I was sick as a dog, and had to sleep at my dad’s house for a few days. on the 3rd night I sleeped on the couch and woke up with 40 bites on my right arm. that’s 40 bites just on my right arm!!!!

even today, I still can’t lay down to sleep with out thinking that I’m getting bitten….two months later!!!(and I’m not….it’s all in my head) but I’m messed up in my head now…no joke, really. I feel like I’m getting bitten, like a sharp pin prick from a needle, on my back, my legs, my arms. each and every night as I lay down to sleep. no new bites, just all in my head. but it feels so real. I’m on here now because I can’t sleep. what to do? sigh.

this is getting old, but I’m about 95% bug free. I know I’m close to winning this war. but the constant itching from “false” bites are driving me crazy.
anyone else have such itching from old bites, or from nothing at all? am I alone in this? I thought this was just from the chemicals, but I can get this itchy feeling at any time or place. just a simple hair on my leg that moves cane make me twitch enough to start scratching.
/cry/tear

buggedinbrooklyn

It might be possible to eradicate bed bugs from the homeless population with cerrtain procedures being followed in shelters, but there’s a cost. I volunteered in a homeless shelter too–and a great effort was made to respect people and treat them as guests. The idea that strict rules are a turn off is prevalent in a lot of shelters. And it makes sense to me. But you hit on something else–the OTHER clients are having bed bugs imposed on them by those who would not want to wash. Of course, it goes a lot deeper than a shower and a change of clothes– many homeless people carry all their posessions with them to shelters; these would have to be kept in some kind of safe room, outside, if kept at all. This would be seen as a hardship by some. It may mean more people sleeping out (which is often a reaction to tighter rules), but it may be necesssary due to the severity of the problem.

I’m thinking of the staff and volunteers of these shelters–the firefighters who visited the shelter to provide ambulance services every day got bed bugs; what about the people who worked in the shelter day and night? They could not close up shop, and I bet a lot of them took bed bugs home, let alone dealing with them at work.