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Dumpster-diving tenant evicted after Winnipeg apartment seriously infested with bed bugs »

Lindor Reynolds of the Winnipeg Free Press reports on a bed bug eviction case in Winnipeg: a woman was evicted from her Sherbrook Street apartment. It was infested with bed bugs. She is disabled and on social assistance. This is a heart-breaking story.
But this is also a complicated story: George […]

How bad are bed bugs in Toronto? Nobody knows for sure. »

We haven’t had any real data about how many people in Toronto are suffering from bed bugs since the 2003 survey of Toronto PCOs.
But this article in Friday’s Toronto Sun has some interesting statistics. On the one hand,
According to Reg Ayre, the city’s Healthy Environments manager, Toronto Public Health received 194 calls for […]

apartmentratings.com on bed bugs; realtor warns clients about bed bugs; tenant.net on bedbugs; more video from Cincinnati »

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 […]

Toronto Community Housing does good; Orlando, Florida tenants and Billings, Montana shelter guest demonstrate why more bed bug education is needed »

TheStar.com | Joe Fiorito updates us on prior bed bug story
“… when bedbugs spread to her apartment, and when the Toronto Community Housing Corporation could not respond to her complaints…, she booked a fumigator on her own and paid… to take care of the problem. She has now been reimbursed by TCHC.” This […]

NYTimes real estate “Hunt” results in bed bugs for second time in 12 weeks »

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 […]

Nicholas Brown’s Bedbug Chronicles, Part 7 »

Nicholas Brown: The Bedbug Chronicles: Part 7 - Living on The Huffington Post
The same day that we ask, with Rene Laraine, what might be causing his bed bugs to persist despite nine bed bug treatments by licensed PCOs, Nicholas Brown brings to mind similar concerns.
Brown, chronicling his bed bug experience on the Huffington Post, is […]

Bed bugs in Ventura County (Thousand Oaks, California) »

Hungry bedbugs a rising problem in some areas : Ventura County Star
Rene Laraine of Thousand Oaks, California, has bed bugs.
Laraine said that after nine treatments performed by two pest control companies, the bedbugs are still there.
A representative for Essex Properties, the company that manages the complex, said the company is doing what it can to […]

a bed bug story from Hawai’i; Fagerlund on aerosol bombs and pesticides »

Hawai’i: Kamehameha housing project infested with bed bugs
“Eight people share a two-bedroom apartment in Leslie’s family. . . . Recently, they had to get rid of three beds and a sofa infested by bedbugs — ‘My kids were eaten alive!’ Most of them have been sleeping on the floor until donated beds arrive, but ‘we
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Bed bugs in homeless shelters, casinos, hotels, apartments: Waynesboro, Atlantic City, Greenpoint, Toronto »

Clip of the Day:
TheStar.com | Public Health must declare bedbug war
“The problem is spreading like flames all over town. Where are the people who will deal with this problem as if they were firefighters in front of a burning building?”

Bedbuggers, Are you all reading Joe Fiorito’s articles in the Star? You really […]

Bed bugs in Norwood Apartments, Washington D.C., say tenants »

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.
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bed bugs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and at Cornell University dorms »

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Online: Stealthy bedbugs pestering the weary
Bed bugs in Milwaukee, WI. Mattress covers don’t need to be “airtight” and the best ones do let air circulate. Most do not smell “a musty, sweet odor like soda”. One landlord is letting tenants out of leases and paying for one treatment in new […]

Nicholas Brown’s “The Bedbug Chronicles: Part 6″ sounds pretty familiar »

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 […]