I talked with a professional exterminator and they said the problem will continue until they fumagate each building. I’m sick of fighting the problem. Someone please help. It’s also a Section 8 and Hud Complex. They just do an apartment if they find out they have bed bugs. The exterminatior said they will keep coming back until the buildings are done in completion of one building at a time. I’ve went out and bought bed bug spray myself. I can’t afford to live this way. It’s very unhealthy and unsanitary.

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I have bed bugs in my apartment this is the first time i ever have this its annoying i cannot afford an exterminator and my landlord thinks its too much to pay for i have talked to her about this issue millions of times in the last month and she refuses to help! just four days ago i started using my own home remedies i got the iron and started ironing all my mattress and carpet! in the room the steam helped a lot i haven’t gotten bit but i’ve been steaming in everyday i threw away clothes bagged up all the shoes sprayed hot shot on them and closed it my clothes i haven’t done because i don’t have enough money to wash every clothing item and what not i threw out some furniture that was inside the room. Today i am doing the living room i took out my center table and the chairs my dinner table and chairs sprayed them also and I’m gonna do the couch and leave it outside as well gonna try to iron the whole carpet in the living room…. there’s another room too but i cant clean that one as much as i would like to cause we rented but its seems like ever since that person moved in we got this issue i try to clean it when that person is not here but its impossible i wish i could just throw everything in that room away! I’m frustrated i can take it anymore i wanna runaway haha but anyways has anyone used any of their own home remedies and how have you gotten rid of those filthy bugs and cheap products you guys recommend or anything please help!

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About 200 feet away from my Apartment one of my neighbors Apartment is infested. I dont know if bed bugs travel through the walls or not…but what are some ways to prevent them from coming into my apartment?

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Okay, we have been living in a multiple apartment complex and have had to have the landlord spray for bed bugs 3 times and I’m still being bitten. Two days ago was the 3rd time within an 8-month period. We caught a live specimen the last 2 times. I cannot find them, but they are eating me up. I’m on medication because of the pain and allergic reaction I have to them. My boyfriend and I are both disabled, and around 60ish and will be moving to Florida in October for good and have been saving a little money to enable us to do this. Moving between now and then doesn’t make sense when we have just a few more months to go. When we called him, he was irate and right down nasty, I was not moved one bit because we pay our rent on time and to the penny, never ever been late not once. However, he did come to spray the next day, but I’m still being bitten even after 2 days. I want to call professional exterminators and pay for it myself and take it off the rent. I don’t want to cause us to get put out when we’re so close to just leaving the state altogether. Can I do that and how would I go about it? Will someone help me please!

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Ok so this morning at like 8 I woke up to a creepy crawly feeling on me neck only to find it was a giant roach. Now I am not the average person who might be a little grossed out by bugs…i am TERRIFIED of them..and honestly who wouldn’t be freaked out by a giant reach crawling on them. The thing is it wasn’t just on the floor, it was on my body and my bed where I have to sleep which made it 10x worse.

To give you an idea of just how terrified i am of bugs…I killed it (out of rage for being on my bed, because i usually can’t muster up the courage to kill bugs) and then had to call someone on the phone in tears while I spent like an hour and a half trying to get rid of the dead carcass which I was so sure was going to somehow come back to life. I know I know ‘they can’t hurt you they’re smaller than you blah blah blah’ but in the moment my mind doesn’t process all that logic.

I took a shower and haven’t been in the room since…or went back to sleep -_-. Later I will change the sheets but basically my question is how do I get rid if these freaking bugs?! The exterminator has been in twice and although there are less of them it seems like the reaches have become bigger and more gross looking. now don’t get me wrong my apartment isn’t dirty or anything I’m actually very anal about cleanliness but I think its because there is some remodeling going on in another apartment and the stupid bugs need a new home.

So any ideas..not raid because that doesn’t work…maybe something I can put under the crack in the door so the reaches will be deterred from coming into my room…or in between small cracks and in cabinets, etc.

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We’ve had bed bugs for a little over two months and only identified them last month.
We decided to move out of the apartment and take precautions -
washing everything in hot water, drying them, freezing things.
However, we still have yet to bring over things like stuffed animals.
I’m concerned there may be bugs inside them, would washing and drying them in hot temperatures as well as keeping them outdoors in freezing weather help?

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Help!. I think I have bed bugs. I live in an apartment, and I have a shitty land lord so I know I have to take care of it myself, but if my neighbors have them won’t they keep coming back?

I can’t afford to move. What should I do?

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Do they have to come on a person who comes into your home? Can they come into your apartment like roaches? I seem to have them, and i can’t figure out how they got in my apartment

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I have been told that my apartment has bed bugs. How do I get rid of them? Do I have toi get rid of my bed that I bought just over a year ago? As well as all my granddaughters dolls & stuff animals?

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My apartment is a real messss.. I try to clean but it get messy again within barely 3 days, and its discouraging because there is so much cleaning to do, once in a while bugs to kill, bed just broke lol.. well basically yea theres so much to do.. and my mom is coming in about a month in a half.. yikess..

how should I proceed?? clean the whole apart once a week? cuz its so freaking tiresome

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I have come to a conclusion that there are bed bugs in my apartment. Never imagined even in the wildest of my dreams…. We have an infant child and worried what harm these bed bugs are causing to our child. What diseases bed bug can cause? Is there any vaccine we need for our child?
I can see them during day time too and wonder whether they are really bed begs??

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If you moved into a duplex with the neighbors below you being infested with roaches and you bring bed bugs to the top apartment (where roaches are too), which foul insect will prevail?

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My fiancee and I live in an apartment and we suddenly got bed bugs about 3 months ago. When we tell management about it they just do this half ass spray job at the walls.

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I have bed bugs in my apartment I was wondering if anyone knows if they can hurt my ferrets in any way? Please help us!

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Last week I found that I have bed bugs. I automatically knew it was my neighbor – I live in a condo building. My neighbor is an old man who has clutter EVERYWHERE. His place is a wreak. He has multiple rental units and brings stuff that people left to his place. It’s just plain nasty. I had an exterminator come yesterday to spray and he also had to check my neighbors place, who happened to have hundreds behind his headboard and his place was covered in black droppings. The exterminator found about 30 live ones in my place. Who knows how long he had them. My HOA is forcing my neighbor to have his place professionally cleaned,even though he wanted to do it himself. My question is, I know I got them from him but I can’t prove it. Is there any legal action I can take if they come back again? He’s a dirty old man and I know this is going to happen again in a matter of time when he continues bringing things and strange characters into his place. Is my only option to move??
This is a CONDO, not an apartment. I own this place, as well as my neighbor. I don’t have a landlord but I do have a HOA, home owners association. I am responsible for my extermination costs unfortunetly since I’m an owner. The exterminator said he can’t prove it, but it’s more than likely since he is infested worse than I am. Luckily I’m staying at my parents, where i can actually get a good nights sleep.

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we just discovered that we have bed bugs – ugh! everything that i have read indicates that you must get an exterminator to get rid of the bugs; however, we have newborn and i am very afraid to use pesticides in our apartment for that reason – we spend 24hrs a day here. not to mention, i have a brother with autism so i am very fearful of damage that can happen to a child when they are developing. please help! how can we kill bedbugs without harming my newborn?

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I had bed bugs since a year ago. i did not notice them since july of 2010. I tried cleaning the house by sweeping, watching sheets and spraying chemicals but they are still there. i kill like 50 everyday and they don’t seem to decrease numbers. i believe they are sucking at least a liter of my blood every week . I called the bug exterminator and after spraying chemicals he told me not to stay in the house for 3 days until the chemical effect is done. i waited in my friends house for three days and when i return they are still some left. i bought new mattress, bed sheets and pillows and they still there. man, why aren’t they disappearing. one night in the middle of the night i found 5- 10 of them in my legs sucking my blood. i got up and seek to stay in my friends house. i mean they are found in my bed room living room and kitchen. What? do i have to now move out to different apartment for them to get off my house? Any bed bugs experts out there. man they are the worst bugs in the world. i wished i had mice or roaches instead of them. can you please give me advise?

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I just had a random weird thought and wanna know if there is anything to it. So bed bugs and several other bugs live off of human blood right? Ok, so what if someone in your apartment complex or maybe even in the same apartment with you has HIV or AIDS can it spread through them? If a single bug feeds off more than one person in a short period of time, wouldn’t they be dropping blood from the previous into the bite? Totally random but I’m kinda curious.

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Really would like a rough or exact temperature. I need to be able to kill bed bugs / eggs on contact. Help me out! I am moving out of my apartment because my building is infested and i was bitten multiple times the other day. but i want to make sure i dont bring any bugs with me to my new place!

steam apparently does the job but i dont want to spend to much money on a steam cleaner and this bissell is around 60 bucks but is it hot enough to do the job?

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I am the only person in my house thats being bitten. I haven’t seen any bugs, but I’ve got bites all over the back of my thigh, the left of my thigh, and my lower back. 3 Other people live in this house and nothing bites them. I sleep in the livingroom, on the couch, and it seems like when i’m sitting at my computer, or sitting on my couch, i’m constantly itching, and later bites seem to appear. I can sometimes feel them on me, but I don’t know if I’m psyching myself out or not, and everytime i check to see if theres a bug, theres nothing there. I’ve tried bug bombing, I’ve tried bed bug sprays, I’ve tried flea bombing/sprays. I can’t seem to find any bugs. Some of the bites get infected and become really painful. I can’t take it anymore, I might have to move out of my apartment due to this. Please let me know if you have an idea of what might be bitting me, and how to get rid of it! Thanks.

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I moved into this minnesota apartment a month ago and everything is breaking or doesn’t work and now there is bed bugs. Everything i brought was new and now I fear I have to throw them out since they are infested with bed bugs. I’m sick of this apartment and feel i have been misled on its condition. Is there any way I can break the lease legally?

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I just moved into an apartment in Denver/Glendale less than a week ago. I signed a six month lease. The lease does not cover pest control. Here is what I’ve been through: killed 25+ roaches within my first three days here. Thursday my apartment was sprayed, but I found and killed nine later that night.
I have bed bug bites on my leg, arm, chest, and even my face.

Management tried to say I brought these with me, but I had to look roaches up to see what they even looked like. I have never had bed bugs. I don’t feel remotely comfortable living here, and upon speaking with management/other tenants this is an ongoing problem that isn’t going to be fixed.

When I was being shown the apartment it was during the daytime, and I was told there were "a few bugs from time to time", not PESTS. I realize I should have asked, but I am not experienced with this.

Is this considered a breach of lease? If not, how would I get out of my lease and not pay the fees?

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A few guys and myself are going to clean out a relatives apartment that is completely infested with bedbugs (moving furniture clothing tvs and everything else from the 12th floor down to the curb) Is it possible that i might end up bringing the bedbugs home with me by doing this

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OK, I don’t know where they came from but I have bed bugs in my apartment now. I have ended up having to throw away my couch and love seat because I was scared of them and I will be throwing away my bed this weekend.

I have gotten a spray poison from the Feed and Seed store in town and it has been working a little bit. But I am still getting bit occasionally. I moved my desk in front of the big window so that the heat from the sun with kill their butts. I have sprayed all corners and crevices and windows and doorways.

But I need something that will work and get them out of here. I have lived here since November 2009 and just started having this issue this month. I am irritated because I am not dirty nor do I have a ton of clutter.

And no the landlord will not let me call an exterminator because I live in a n apartment an she is afraid of poison going through the vents. So I will be treating it myself.

Any Ideas, please let me hear them.

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i just found the most amazing collection of classical music and was told AFTER i had it in my friend’s apartment that the apartment was infested with bed bugs. i’m in nyc. please someone comfort me; i’m goign to die from stress (everything i look at online is so uninformative).
Thanks so
much you guys!!!!!!!!!!

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I don’t buy used clothing or furniture, or live in an apartment, but I am terrified that I will pick them up somewhere…a movie theatre, taxi, hotel, workplace, public transportation…etc.

I am very worried that someone in my family will pick them up while traveling (my sister travels A LOT) and bring them into our home. I am flying out of town in a couple months to visit family and am scared of picking them up in an airplane.

Does anyone else have these concerns? What do you do to remedy the situation?

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Someone on my sister’s floor had bed bugs and they some how migrated to her apartment. Although she is getting her apartment sprayed she wants to throw out her furniture but doesn’t know if she has to have the furniture treated before doing so. She is also worried that they will come back. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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I moved into an apartment in November and started getting bitten by an unknown insect causing allergic reactions, and reported that to the front office, they have not followed up since they said they were going to send in an exterminator, and the bites have continued unless I set off a fogger every few days. Since then I have found a dead bed bug.

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The tenants have moved more than one month ago, I have treat the apartment again and again, there is no one live here now, how do I know I still have bed bugs?

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I have had a company come out a week ago and treat my apartment for bed bugs. I still have everything I own in big black garbage bags, some with "no-pest" strips which I’ll need to transfer to bags without a pest strip, because these strips are so expensive. Since they last up to 4 months I can re-use them. The exterminators are coming out again in a couple of days and doing a more detailed spraying of the apartment, involving lifting the carpet and spraying under etc.
My question is… instead of transfering all of these strips from one treated bag to the next, can I place all my belongings in the middle of a room and bomb/fog my apartment. Has anyone done this???
Also, how effective is "BED BUG PATROL"?? this is a natural product that claims to kill bugs on contact. Please help with any info to effectively kill these bugs with least amount of harmful chemicals as possible, I have kids and pets. Thank you.

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I have a bed bug problem in my apartment. I have been getting bit. So my logic is, alcohol is bad for the human body, therefore it is bad for a bed bug. I don’t know if that’s true. So if I drink alcohol, the alcohol goes in my blood, the bed bugs drink my blood, the bed bugs ingest the alcohol (which Im hoping will be a lethal dose considering their size), and die. Plausible?

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I was wondering if they make some thing I can spray on myself that is safe that will repel bed bugs. I know there are some in my apartment complex and my place has been treated for them. I’m gladly able to say they are gone, but I don’t want them back.

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We live in a apartment with two bedrooms. We’ve been suffering with these bed bugs for a while now but its a low infestation. We cleaned everything and killed them and their eggs. We even put the Results Insect Killer powder with silicone dioxide and pyrethrin everywhere. To test if the powder works we put the bugs in a cup and put the powder, it has been a day put they still haven’t died except they have slowed down and just squiggle around. The bugs are in the living room and the MB and my parent’s room is right in between both of them, but has no sign of any bugs or bites or anything. They’ve totally skipped the room right in between. How is that possible? How do i get rid of them?

We’re also moving soon into a town house soon so how do i prevent them from traveling to the other house with us? We’re thinking of Bell Environmental Services, but should we call them now or in the new house?
PLEASE HELP US SLEEP AGAIN!!!

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I have bed bugs all over my apartment! I have no clue how they got in my house. I’ve never had them before and I don’t know how to get rid of them! help me please they are every where. I cant even sleep at night because I’m scared they are going to bite me!
and yes i do take showers!!!!
PLEASE ONLY REAL ANSWERS!!

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I was infested in my apartment and moved to a town house and brought them along. We bought almost any product to kill them and nothing seemed to work then finally we bought DE and we didn’t get bit for the first couple of weeks then a like 2 showed up and we kept doing the treatments about once or twice a week we would put DE and now there’s been no sign of them for 1 to 1 1/2 months now. How do i know they’re completely gone? What should i do? Should i keep treating if i still haven’t gotten bitten or seen any.

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