Five rooms at a Ventura motel on Thompson Boulevard were yellow-tagged this week for substandard housing violations, including bedbugs and water leaks, authorities said.

The owner of the 37-room Travelers Beach Inn agreed to move those people affected into different rooms at the motel and is cooperating with officials to get the rooms with bedbugs sprayed, said Brad Clark, a Ventura city code enforcement officer who examined the motel Monday with a Ventura County health inspector.

Inspectors came in after a complaint was filed. The original inspections last December apparently happened because:

… an angry resident who had been forced to leave the motel showed up at City Hall with a bedbug in a plastic bag and demanded an investigation.

That’s a very good way to get officials to pay attention.