I am a current renter of a house by a privat owner. I signed a year’s lease starting on Oct. 2009. On June 25, 2010 my boyfriend and I found ut that we have bedbugs. The peole from Orkin came out andsaid that we have had the proble or a while and it was possible that they could have already been livig in the 30 year old carpet before we even moved in. Bedbugs can lay dormant without feeding for up to a year. When we notified the landlord about the problem, he said that the professional treatment was a minimm of $600.00 and he refused to pay any of it. We need to get a new mattress, and possibly new furniture. He agreed to let us out of our lease if we paid half of July’s rent and be out by the 18th. He’s going to have to get he house treated anyway, but reuses to have it done before we move our stuff out whichmight cause this problem to follow us to our new locaton. My questions are:

1.) Is he in any way legally obligated to treat the house and our property as well?

2.) Can we get out of the lease without cathing any fines?

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