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itchfactor
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Posted 7 months ago
Wed Jul 29 2009 1:46:57
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I have been dealing with Bed Bugs since January 2009, althought we didn't know it until June. Anyway by the time that I finally saw one the infestation that I have is so bad, that two different PCO have said it is one of the worst they have seen in their careers. Anyway getting to my in need of advice. I am trapped here, as I am unemployed at the moment and my parents don't really want me to move home as they are affraid of me bringing them back with me. If that happens they would have to pay to get an exterminator and they have a fair size house, currently my landlords are picking up the bill. This is where my frustration is beginning. So far they have hired two different PCO. I think it was because the first guy recommended an inspection of the whole building (I lived in an old mansion split into 12 apartments) and they didn't want to pay. He told me that just spraying my unit I would most likely get them back. SO they went out and found another guy who came in and said they wouldn't spread and just doing my apartment is fine. Who is right???? Someone please help me out here.
Next, my building is currently up for sale so my landlords have been trying to keep this quiet. Since the end of June, 2 people of have moved out and 3 people have moved in and none of them know. I feel sick over the whole situation especially since the one apartment that changed hands is right beside mine. I am freaking out because I have begun seeing them crawling out of the baseboards and mouldings, as well as electrical outlets along the wall dividing our apartments.
I am also frustrated by their (landlords) approach. I have begun to feel like they are blaming me as the problem started about a month and half after I moved in. I know for a fact I didn't bring it with me as all my furniture came directly from my parents house and they don't have them. Also I tend to change out of my work clothes into something more comfortable when I get home anyway. I am suspicious now because the day before I moved in the guy beside me moved out and threw out all his belongs. I was told it was because he got called up to the army. However I am beginning to wonder if he had them. That apartment sat empty for over a month after I moved in. Would beb bugs move to find a new food source? How long would it be before they did that?
I am starting to get worried that my landlords are just going to stop treatment. Just before my last treatment one of my landlords came in and was like well hopefully this is it. After the guy came in he was like no it will be at least 3-4 more treatments it doesn't look like the last guy did anything. I am just really starting to reach my limit and want this over. I can't afford to pay for treatment if they decide not to pay anymore. Also they told me not to report them to health department or registry because of selling the building.
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Your landlords are cheap bastards and behaving unethically.
Don't let them exploit your basic sense of fair-play and decency by mind-effing you into thinking the problem started with you. I'd bet my gorgeous new plastic dining room table that they are being intentionally deceitful when they imply that the bugs started with you.
They have the nerve to ask that you refrain from reporting the building to the health dept or the registry? They want to pass this problem to the would-be-purchaser without disclosing this problem? Not nice. Not nice at all.
Well, if your landlords want your silence, maybe they should pay for proper treatment, so you can actually live free of bedbugs and not spread the infestation to your parents' home & elsewhere. The cost of pest extermination is a deductible business expense for your landlords. They can eat the cost.
The first PCO is absolutely right. With a massive infestation in a multi-unit building, bugs do spread, infest, rinse, repeat throughout units. And yes, bedbugs will travel seeking out new food sources between units, if their original food source moves out.
Communicate to your landlord in writing, with the aim of getting that first PCO back in there. Send the letter certified return receipt.
Explain what you've written here, including the timeline of seeing your neighbor throw all his stuff away. Find out what the landlord/tenant laws are in your area re bedbug infestations. Check out the "links" page here at bedbugger and the "resources" page at newyorkvsbedbugs.org for info about best treatment practices, legal issues, etc. re: bedbugs. Read. Read. Read.
Alternatively, if you see this battle looming and don't have the energy for it, move out. Read the site FAQs on moving w/o spreading these bugs. Be warned: if you don't have the money to treat your possessions during the move, you may have to toss out a lot of your furniture and belongings or store them sealed up in an air-tight way for up to 18 monthys. Read the FAQs to figure out what can be treated cheaply and what's got to be tossed/stored.
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