Category: tenants
By nobugsonme on Dec 29, 2007 in bed bug eviction, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs and dumpster diving, bed bugs and hoarding, bedbugs, canada, curbside, dumpster diving, eviction, getting rid of bed bugs, hoarding, landlords, mental illness, sherbrook street, tenants, winnipeg | 4 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 22, 2007 in 311, CDC, PCOs, Toronto Public Health, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bed bugs in apartments, bed bugs in hotels, bedbugs, canada, incidence, landlords, new york, nyc, ontario, pest control, public health, tenants, toronto, toronto sun, usa | 1 Comment
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 […]
By Nobugsonme on Dec 12, 2007 in Brunswick, Jekyll Island, Sea Island, St. Simons Island, WLWT, apartmentratings.com, apartments, avoid bed bugs, bed bug registry, bed bug video, bed bugs, bed bugs in apartments, bed bugs in multi-unit dwellings, bedbugs, channel5, cincinnati, georgia, get rid of bed bugs, golden isles, infestation, landlords, media, news, ohio, real estate, real estate broker, spread, tenant.net, tenants, who pays for bed bug treatment, youtuube | 2 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 11, 2007 in Joe Fiorito, The Star, bed bug education, bed bug treatment, bedbugs, billings, florida, get rid of bed bugs, homeless, homeless shelter, how to get rid of bed bugs, low-income housing, mattresses, misinformation, montana, montana rescue mission, mosquitos, ontario, orlando, public housing, streets, tenants, throwing away mattresses, throwing stuff out, toronto, toronto community housing corporation, tossing out mattresses, tossing things out | 1 Comment
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 2, 2007 in 311, apartments, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bedbugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, landlords, new york, new york city bed bugs, new york times, nyc, nytimes, real estate, tenants, the hunt | 1 Comment
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 28, 2007 in Huffington Post, Nicholas Brown, bed bug persistence, bed bug treatment, bedbugs, eliminate bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, journalist gets bed bugs, journalists, journalists with bed bugs, kill bed bugs, landlords, multi-unit buildings, neighbors, new york, news, nyc, pest control, tenants, treatment failure | 6 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 28, 2007 in PCOs, bed bug news, bed bug spread, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, california, cooperation, exterminate bed bugs, get rid of bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, landlords, nine treatments, pyrethroid resistance, rene laraine, repeated treatments, resistance, tenants, thousand oaks, treatment, usa, ventura | 7 Comments
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 […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 26, 2007 in affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, eviction, furniture, hawaii, housing project, kamehameha, low-income housing, multi-unit buildings, tenant evicted for refusing bed bug treatment, tenants, usa | 3 Comments
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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By Nobugsonme on Nov 23, 2007 in Brooklyn, Joe Fiorito, NJ, Toronto Community Housing, astral, atlantic city, bed bug news, bed bugs, bed bugs in casinos, bed bugs in hotels, bedbugs, canada, casino, greenpoint, homeless shelter, hotels, landlords, new hope shelter, new jersey, new york, nyc, ontario, pennsylvania, pistilli, public health, spread, spread of bed bugs, tenants, toronto, tropicana, usa, waynesboro | 0 Comments
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 […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 18, 2007 in apartments, bed bugs, bedbugs, condo conversions, dc, landlords, norwood, tenants, washington | 0 Comments
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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By Nobugsonme on Nov 17, 2007 in bed bug epidemic, bed bug odor, bed bug smell, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, cornell university, dorms, get rid of bed bugs, journal-sentinel, kill bed bugs, landlords, mattress encasements, milwaukee, misinformation, odor, residence halls, spread, students, tenants, universities, wisconsin | 0 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 14, 2007 in Huffington Post, Nicholas Brown, apartments, bed bug epidemic, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, dealing with bed bugs, disclosure, get rid of bed bugs, housing laws, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, ignorance, landlord knew, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, living with bed bugs, new york, nyc, pest control, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, tenants, treatment, usa | 4 Comments
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 […]
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