Category: washington
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 Oct 5, 2007 in Halcyon House, SROs, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, cincinnati, colorado, costs, curbside, doctors and nurses, elderly, furniture, good ideas, government, health, hospitals, hotels, ignorance, illinois, institutions, kill them now we're doomed, low-income housing, motels, multi-unit buildings, ohio, public education, public health, public housing, rage, schools, shelters, signs and symptoms, slumlords, social services, spread, tenants, tools and weapons, tossing stuff out, treatment, usa, washington, washington DC | 6 Comments
According to Channel 12 WKRC in Cincinnati (doesn’t Howard Hesseman work there?), residents at the Hillrise Apartment building, which is owned by Cincinnati Business & Professional Women’s Retirement Living Incorporated, are suffering from various issues including bed bugs.
Calvin Merritt’s problems at Hillrise Apartments are pretty simple.
“Mostly bugs, roaches and all that…”
The “all […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 31, 2007 in bed bug registries, bed bugs, bedbugs, hotels, oregon, travel, washington | 5 Comments
This article from Walla Walla, Washington’s Union-Bulletin, offers the standard “local story on bed bugs.”
It begins with Al Grable, local Pest Control Operator (PCO):
While there have apparently been no official bedbug complaints lodged against any Walla Walla county motels, local residents can’t rest easily.
Al Grable, owner of Agreeable Pest Control in College Place, […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 22, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, furniture, spread, treatment, treatment preparations, washington | 3 Comments
This Associated Press story from last week, from Columbian.com in Clark County, Washington, is in many ways a typical “now we have bed bugs here” story, found in all regional papers.
But it ends with a PCO’s anecdote about the difficulty of discovering where bed bugs were hiding in a hotel room:
“Finding them is usually the […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 17, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, news, seattle, spread, washington | 10 Comments
A new article on bed bugs Monday, from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Laura Geggel.
Most interesting was their “tips” section:
TIPS
If you think you have bedbugs, do not move your sleeping location. You may unintentionally move the bugs and start a new infestation.
* Try to catch the insect so you can show it to […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 29, 2007 in AP, bed bugs, bedbugs, journalist, journalists with bed bugs, news, seattle, spokane, spread, vancouver, washington | 5 Comments
Yet another journalist gets bed bugs.
When I spoke to Meredith May of the San Francisco Chronicle, I told her I knew of one journalist who’d gotten bed bugs (months after a story s/he wrote, and with no suspected connection between doing the research on them and catching them, in case you’re wondering, as I was). […]
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 Mar 4, 2007 in FAQs, dc, florida, housing laws, multi-unit buildings, treatment, usa, washington | 2 Comments
Got some information today on DC and FL laws vis-a-vis extermination (whose responsibility it is to pay does depend on locality in the US). I added this to our FAQ for tenants, but I am also putting it here, so people can see the update, especially because DC’s laws are different from those […]
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 | 40 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. There may be inaccuracies or errors or speculative comments below. Use what you find below as a starting point, verify […]
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