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Roaches and Bed Bugs (not to mention management)
From:
-Anonymous-
Date posted:
6/27/2007
Years at this apartment:
2006
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2007
4 responses
I don't own a condo, but I rent one from an owner. While the building itself is nice, the critters we share it with are not. We have had roaches the entire 11 months I've lived there, and EVERY floor has them; it's not just a few unlucky tenants. My boyfriend has woken up on numerous occassions with welts on his hands and arms from bed bugs (seriously). We have had the place fumigated for roaches on 4-5 occassions to no avail. An exterminator was supposed to come twice for the bed bugs, and never showed. My advice is to buy, get renters, and live in a nice place until real estate prices go through the roof in that area like they're supposed to.
Unless you like roaches and bed bugs. Your call. And don't even get me started on Management.
Please note that I lived at 3001 S. Michigan, not the Indiana Street location mentioned above.
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User Responses
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From:
bookworm000
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Date:
06/30/2007
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Stupid! If the exterminator did not show you, you got to have them in your place. You are so stupid! You are the reason why your place is so lousy!
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From:
Anonymous
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Date:
09/10/2007
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I am/was a prospective tenant viewing the opinions and couldn't help but to respond to the latter response. For you to be a "bookworm", your response was quite incoherent. Her response was quite helpful. How dare you childishly post nonsense? You probably work for the management. If there are nasty mouths like yours working there, no wonder the bugs won't stay away- they LIKE garbage:).
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From:
tassbhar
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Date:
11/02/2007
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Anonymous, with the bed bug problem, you are stupid. Bed bugs are unique to a person's own mattress. Exterminators can't get rid of bed bugs, you have to get rid of your mattress entirely. As far as roaches, I lived at South Commons for 5 years and I have never seen a roach (really).
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From:
nerdygirl1981
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Date:
04/02/2008
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To All,
I own and live in the 3041 building and in 2007 our building also had an issue with bed bugs and roaches. Its a nice building and the new management is helpful and we are hoping for more positive changes in the building. Either way with the infectations that we had with the roaches and bed bugs was hit hard when the management went unit by unit to search for these critters. In addition to our regular extermination which is meant to maintain our homes bug free, they went door to door and exterminated individual units and searched for any bed bug infectation. I had many issues with the management before, and so far this management is doing a much better job.
Tassbhar -
A couple weeks ago we received a pamphlet that was slid under our doors.
Below is some information I had come across while trying to research them and what causes them and how they spread. I hope this will help eliminate the thinking that bed bugs actually are unique to an individual’s mattress.
“People can often acquire bedbugs at hotels, motels, and bed-and-breakfasts, as a result of increased domestic and international tourism, and bring them back to their homes in their luggage. They also can pick them up by inadvertently bringing infested furniture or used clothing to their household. If someone is in a place that is severely infested, bedbugs may actually crawl onto and be carried by people's clothing, although this is atypical behavior — except in the case of severe infestations, bedbugs are not usually carried from place to place by people on clothing they are currently wearing. Finally, bedbugs may travel between units in multi-unit dwellings (such as condominiums and apartment buildings), after being originally brought into the building by one of the above routes. This spread between units is dependent in part on the degree of infestation, on the material used to partition units (concrete is a more effective barrier to the spread of the infestation), and whether infested items are dragged through common areas while being disposed of, resulting in the shedding of bedbugs and bedbug eggs while being dragged.”
Below is another excerpt which might explain why people think that they are limited to the mattresses.
“Bedbugs travel easily and quickly along pipes and boards, and their bodies are very flat, which allows them to hide in tiny crevices. In the daytime, they tend to stay out of the light, preferring to remain hidden in such places as mattress seams, mattress interiors, bed frames, nearby furniture, carpeting, baseboards, inner walls, tiny wood holes, or bedroom clutter. Bedbugs can be found on their own, but more often congregate in groups. Bedbugs are capable of travelling as far as 100 feet to feed, but usually remain close to the host in bedrooms or on sofas where people may sleep.”
With the widespread use of DDT in the 1940s and '50s, bedbugs all but disappeared from North America in the mid-twentieth century. Infestations remained common in many other parts of the world, however, and in recent years have begun to rebound in North America. Reappearance of bedbugs in North America has presented new challenges for pest control without DDT and similarly banned agents.
The National Pest Management Association, a US advocacy group for pest management professionals (PMPs) conducted a "proactive bed bug public relations campaign" in 2005 and 2006, resulting in increased media coverage of bedbug stories and an increase in business for PCOs, possibly distorting the scale of the increase in bedbug infestations.
I hope this information will help clear some distorted facts.
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