Remember this guy?
Well, he’s back. And it’s hard to believe, but he sounds even less charming than last time. He updates the world that his dorm bed bugs have come back, and he is now moving to a non-bed bug-infested apartment in Greenpoint.
(Dude, no bed bugs in Greenpoint?!? Maybe that old landlord […]

Fixing up a ‘Crappy Apartment’ — amNY.com
amNY has a series called “Fixing up a ‘Crappy Apartment.’” Perhaps a bedbugger will get in touch, though our problem is both too complex and too simple to make a good fix-em-up story. “Get rid of bed bugs” is the simple–but not easy–fix.

Apartmentratings.com is a way to check what other tenants are saying about your building. It is not widely used, but like anything else, can be another tool, along with the bedbugregistry.com. Don’t forget to leave your review and warn others. There are 623 posts today featuring “bed bugs.” Don’t forget to search […]

Remember back in September, when the New York Times column “The Hunt” featured a young couple who moved five times in two-and-a-half years, only to end up in an apartment with bed bugs?
I am astonished to find that, not even three months later, a second “The Hunt” column results in a bedbugged apartment. In […]

Official Norwood Tenants Blog asks “Would you pay $200k for an apartment with bedbugs, no heat, and no working elevator?”
Tenants of the Norwood Apartments at 1417 N St. NW in Wasington, DC: complain their landlord is neglecting rental apartments with mold and bed bugs, while pitching $200K condo conversions.
(tags: bedbugs landlords tenants DC washingtonDC washington […]

There’s a new update to Nicholas Brown’s bed bug journal on the Huffington Post today, and it takes us through the 39th day of living with bed bugs during treatment.
In this installment, we learn that bed bugs are taking a significant toll on Brown’s self-identity and social life:
Despite my anger, even our bug-laden living situation […]

Curbed.com, the real estate blog, claims that 30 Lincoln Plaza, currently being redeveloped into pricey condominiums (Curbed mentions a price of $1,185,000 for 647 sq/ft one bedrooms), is infested with bed bugs:
UPPER WEST SIDE—It seems there is a little detail about the condo conversion at 30 Lincoln Plaza that may have been overlooked: “You failed […]

The Daily Record reports that a landlord is trying to evict George Veghte, a disabled man from Rutgers Village, a complex in Parsippany, NJ. He asked for help with his bed bugs. They told him to prep, but he could not follow all steps on his own.
His lease was terminated Sept. 27, about […]

According to WCSH6.com, Bed bugs are spreading in Greater Portland (Maine).
The brief article describes how Raymond Leavitt sees “dozens of bed bugs” at night in his Portland apartment.
Officials with the Portland Housing Authority, who oversee Franklin Towers where Raymond lives, say bed bugs are a problem in most of their properties.
They say they […]

This list from techletter.com, a Pest Control industry website, shows all the products labeled for us against bed bugs in the USA. It helpfully classifies those labeled for spraying on mattresses, and those not labeled for mattresses.
It’s now in the sidebar under Bed Bug Information (and then under “Pesticides Labeled…”) so you […]

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Waterbury, Connecticut has had a recent bed bug outbreak in a number of locations. Last week, we were told in the Republican-American online of these locations with bed bug infestations, which had been reported to the Health Dept.:
553 South Main St. (two […]

More stories from large, infested buildings: this time, from 920 Ouellette Ave. in Windsor. The Windsor Star reports that John Fontaine, a 62-year old cab driver, is sleeping on his balcony in an attempt to avoid being bitten. It’s a tactic others have tried, though I am not certain it accomplishes much.
The Windsor-Essex […]