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By nobugsonme on Oct 19, 2007 in activism, alberta, apartments, awareness, bed bug blame game, bed bug refugees, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, canada, detection, disabled, elderly, eviction, government, ignorance, information and help, landlords, legal, multi-unit buildings, new jersey, notification, prep, public education, social services, tenants, treatment, treatment preparations, usa | 17 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 24, 2007 in alberta, apartments, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, british columbia, canada, manitoba, new brunswick, newfoundland and labrador, nova scotia, ontario, prince edward island, quebec, saskatchewan | 4 Comments
Our FAQ on who pays for tenants’ bed bug treatment just got a little more complete. Since this is a really helpful resource, I am blogging it too.
Courtesy of the CBC’s links from its fine story on bed bugs (which remains the best television clip on bed bugs to date, hands down, in my […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 2, 2007 in alberta, bad ideas, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, edmonton, mattresses, spread | 5 Comments
I thought it was bad that companies were carting away used mattresses alongside new ones in their delivery trucks. But some mattress sellers go even further in their attempts to spread bed bugs.
A Canadian mattress store called Sleep Country has a program of “charity” for those in need. When a person buys a […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 16, 2007 in Queens, alberta, bed bug bites, bed bugs, bedbugs, blackpool, brazil, british columbia, california, canada, colorado, denmark, england, florida, gibraltar, harrow, hungary, iceland, illinois, iowa, ireland, kentucky, manitoba, maryland, massachusetts, meta, michigan, mississippi, nevada, new jersey, new york, north dakota, nottingham, ohio, oklahoma, ontario, oregon, pennsylvania, quebec, san francisco, sheffield, spread, texas, uk, usa, utah, virginia, washington | 7 Comments
You can click here to see a map of the last 90 or so visitors to the site. It will look different from what I describe below, because I am writing about what I saw there about 4-5 hours ago. Now it’s almost midnight in New York, and the Aussies are starting to […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 21, 2007 in alberta, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, colleges, dorms, massachusetts, multi-unit buildings, treatment, usa | 4 Comments
More infested apartments in Edmonton.
The Edmonton story is notable because it details how Robert Kirkland moved from one apartment infested with bed bugs, to another. When I first started reading, I wondered if he could have moved the bugs inadvertently with him. But the article states that Capital Health noted the building Kirkland […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 3, 2006 in alberta, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, homelessness, housing laws, multi-unit buildings, tales of bed bug woe, treatment | 2 Comments
Previously, I blogged about the case in Edmonton, where tenants were evicted for not complying with the preparations for extermination in their apartments (which involved bagging clothes and moving or removing furniture.
Now, the Edmonton Journal is reporting that some tenants who claim to have complied with the preparations for bed bug treatment in their building […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 1, 2006 in alberta, bed bug eviction, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, eviction, government, housing laws, multi-unit buildings, news, prep, treatment | 8 Comments
We know it is important for people in bedbug-infested units to follow certain procedures in order to prepare for pest control to spray and treat their apartments. We also know how time consuming, difficult, and costly preparations can be.
But now the Edmonton Sun reports that residents of several units of a bedbug-infested building in […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 22, 2006 in FAQs, alberta, bed bugs, bedbugs, british columbia, california, canada, chicago, dc, housing laws, illinois, information and help, landlords, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, multi-unit buildings, new jersey, new york, nova scotia, ontario, prince edward island, quebec, tenants, treatment, usa, washington | 34 Comments
One of the first questions renting tenants, co-op owners and condo owners ask, when confronted with bed bugs, is: who’s responsible for paying for their elimination?
The laws vary. We are not lawyers, but we’ve collected all the resources below to try to help you figure this out.
If you are a tenant (renter), please find […]
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