Heres the problem with bed bugs. Once you have them, even moving will not get rid of them. Bed bugs will go right with you to a new apartment. These little buggers lay eggs in furniture, clothing, etc. So, you can run but you can’t hide! Its best to continue to rid yourself of the pests before moving. But if your’re in a large complex it can be tough to get rid of them unless surrounding units are treated too.

Nighty Night, don’t let the bed bugs bite.
Its a fact Paul, the USA hasn’t seen an infestation of bed bugs like this since the early 1900’s. Bed bugs are on the rise and are difficult to kill. Let me give you a little insight on these bed bugs. To kill your enemy, you must know your enemy:
Bed bugs are actual considered parasites that seek human hosts or other warm blooded animals. The scientific name is Cimex Lectularius which literally translates to Blood Sucker! Now here’s the reason these blood suckers are so hard to get rid of… as with any parisite, they have perfected procreation. Male bed bugs will mate with as many females as it can, yes, they’re immoral buggers but the more freaky thing is the way these guys have sex. Males actually stab through the females abdomen with there sex organ. The more times they stab the female, the more effect it will be for the female. Each time the bed bug stabs its partner it injects her with semen. Once a female has been attacked by the male it will lay anywhere from one to a dozen eggs daily. The eggs are coated with a sticky substance the adheres to many surfaces. Eggs hatch in 5 to 15 days.
Baby bed bugs, called nymphs can start feeding right away. Although, bed bugs can live for many months without food (Blood). When they feed they prefer to do it at night after their host have gone to sleep. Bed bugs are equiped with a straw-like mouth that easily goes through the skin. When bed bugs start feeding they produce a chemical that numbs your skin so that you don’t feel a thing, the also inject a anticoagulant that prevents the blood from clotting while they suck. Later this saliva flulid causes skin irratations that vary per person but mostly cause itching that can last from hours to days. The feeding process will take up to 15 minuets for adults, less for nymphs. Bugs will engorge themselves to about 3 times their original state. After feeding they return to their dark hiding spot to digest.
Bed bugs are flat and extremely small. During their life cycle 12 to 18 months they will molt 5 times before they reach maturity. Bed bugs like to hide near the host. The best way to find them is to look closely at the seems of your matress, inside your box spring, and even under picture frames, between cracks in walls, light switches etc. Bed bugs are visable to the naked eye about 3/16 to 1/5 inch long and are redish brown in color. Look for redish stains on sheets and mattress. You may also find shed skins from moltations. Bed bugs do have scent glands that release a sweet musty like odor, that can be detected by humuns only if the infestation is major. However, specialized companies will often use dogs to find bed bugs… their smellers are up to 10,000 times stronger than humans.

Now that you know what they are, lets talk about how to kill them.
I mentioned above that some companies use dogs to track down bed bugs. To best exterminate bed bugs it is suggested to hire a company that can provide a bed bug scent dog to locate hiding spots. This sure method is much better than a vague generalized spraying approach. Believe it or not, the bed bug spray that is most effective– in my opinion is not harmful at all to humans.
How to get rid of bed bugs for good?
1) Hire a company that uses K9 (dogs) to sniff out bed bug hiding spots.
2) Use a Cryonite spray to instantly kill bed bugs.
3) Repeat about 2 weeks after initial treatment.
4) Get your landlord to pay for the treatment — the RPA can arrange that when you file a landlord complaint.
What is a Cryonite Spray?
I though you might ask… First let me explain that bed bugs do not do well with the cold. In fact 2 weeks at below freezing tempatures will kill all bed bugs and eggs. So, if you live in a cold climate, you could store your infected belongings in an unheated storage unit in the middle of the winter, and you could be confident that you would be free of bed bugs– but keep in mind at least 2 weeks at below freezing tempature. Probably not going to happen in California.
So, back to the question. Cryonite is CO2 spray that freezes bed bugs and eggs instantly. The spray shoots out a Carbon Dioxide Snow, similar to dry ice (-100 degrees F) which instantly kills. There are no side effects to humans or pets. Its safer for your home and more effective. Don’t waste your money on sprays from hardware stores– they don’t work very well, as you well know from your past experience.
Remember, getting out of your lease will only spread the problem to your new apartment. You gotta deal with it now. Although you should be able to get you landlord to pay for the Cryonite treatment.
Good Luck– and don’t let the bed bugs bite! (Sorry couldn’t resist)

I’ve lived with bed bugs and its not fun. But the above advice from “BedBUGGER” is really informative. The Cryonite treatment works really well, that’s finally what worked for me.
Thanks for taking the time to explain bed bugs in detail, but some of that stuff makes me creeped out. I had no idea bed bugs were considered parasites, yucky!

Me and my wife moved into an apartment about 3 months in weve been seeing bedbugs everywhere our income is so limited right now we cant afford to treat it ourselves and sue a landlord. We know how to get them outta our stuff and most of it were going to throw away. Honestly though we need outta this lease what are our options.

This is a good blog. Keep up all the work. I too love blogging and expressing my opinions. Thanks
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we moved to the area we live in about 6 months ago. We were having trouble finding a place so a woman from my uncles church suggested a landlord she had worked with before. At first he showed us this unit that had been desserted by the previous renters, and told us if we cleaned it up he wouldnt charge us deposit. So we agreed and began cleaning out the unit the next day, and moved our things in a couple days later. Well the next day the lady from my uncles church called a d told us to get our things out of there because she found out the people that were there before us left because tnere were bedbugs there. So we went and got some bedbug spray from home depot and soaked all of our clothes and anything made of cloth little did we know that bedbugs can hide electronics too. Next we called the landlord and told him we didnt want to move into that unit because it was just to filthy and asked him if he had anymore places open so he showed us the one we are currentlly in. We moved into this place and about a month later my girlfriend started to complain that she was gettin bit at night. She would be itching so bad tht she would get up outta bed and go sleep on the couch in the middle of the night. So agin we went and got spray and foggers, the problem stopped for about a week then she noticed she was gettin bit agin, then my daughter began to bet bit and i mean bad. Her arms legs back and stomach were covered with bites. So we got foggers and spray agin, note this is the third time. Now we notice that we are gettin bit in other parts of the house like downstairs in the living room. I thought that my girlfriend was spreading them when she would get up in the middle of the night, but she did some research and found tht when u set off foggers they just move to another part of the house. So now we’ve spent I dont know how much on sprays and foggers and we still have the problem. So we call an exterminator and keep in mind that i was gonna pay for his myself even tho im renting. So the exterminator comes and finds a bedbug on our mattress, then tells me its gonna cost $1600 dollars for the treatment. Then he ask us if we rent or own, I told him we rent and he begins to tell me about all these lawsuits that have do with tenants sueing their landlords for the cost and he ask me if ide be interested in sueing but i told him no we just want the problem taken card of. So he offers to call our landlord and let him know whats goin on( which is a call i wish ide made myself) because the next day they came n served us with a 30 day notice. And when i got pissed and asked, ’so u mean to tell me we’re gettin evicted?’ His response was no we just have to have the property vacant so we can take care of the problem. So basically we got bedbugs from one of their units and their solution to the problem is to put my 3 year old daughter, myself, and my girlfriend who is 3 months pregnant by the way out on the street, STILL HAVING THE BEDBUGS WE GOT IN THEIR UNIT. Oh yeah and they want us to pay rent for this month before we go or get out now. Can they do this, please gimmie some advise on who to get in touch with or somethin. If they want us out thats fine but they should at least treat this place before we go so we dont just carry them to our next place and have all kinds of problems and expenses with our next landlord.

I am writing you on behalf of my mother, Margie Lock, who has been living in the Calibre Chase Apartments in Crystal Minnesota since March of 2002. On June 5, 2010, she moved into her new apartment on the 3rd floor from the 2nd floor of the same building. On the morning of October 1st she discovered signs of bedbugs in her mattress. We notified the landlord immediately. The Apartment Site Manager called their contracted pest control agent and at 4pm on the same day Plunkett’s Pest Control came out to inspect the apartment. My mother, my husband, the apartment site manager, Chad Boeddeker and Rocky, the Plunkett’s exterminator representative, and I walked into the master bedroom, which is the only room in the apartment that showed any signs of bedbugs. During the day, my husband and I worked constantly bagging up all the bedding into large plastic garbage bags. We bagged a couple of dead bedbugs for Rocky to see, so perhaps he did not need to perform a more thorough investigation or maybe he felt he did not need to look into the closet or drawers or anywhere else in the apartment because we told him we had gone through the entire 1050 square foot, 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment with kitchen, living room and dining room, and found no evidence of bedbugs anywhere other than the master bedroom. Anyone going into my mothers bedroom would have not assumed that there were bedbugs present. The only evidence was under the bed. Her apartment is very clean with no clutter anywhere. The investigation was brief and we left the bedroom in less than 10 minutes and went to the living room where Chad and Rocky told us they were going to get together and let us know what we should do. Chad advised us not to tell anyone about the infestation.

At 4pm on October 1st, Chad came to the apartment and presented us with a proposal from Plunkett’s for a heat procedure costing $2071.50 plus tax. Today we received a letter from Calibre Chase stating that they expect us to take care of the necessary expense via their contracted pest control agent which will be billed back to us from Lang-Nelson, owners of the apartment. They notified us that the soonest date available for treatment is October 20.

Over the last few days, my husband and I have extensively researched bedbugs and have found many horror stories about bedbug extermination and bedbug scams. We read one article that said the heat treatment is overkill, expensive and damaging. Another article said bedbugs could come from the walls, the heating system, vents, and many other places and the only way of getting rid of them is through constant diligence and maintenance. We cleaned, fumigated, wrapped and sealed the bed in plastic and have removed all signs of any bedbugs. We thoroughly examined the apartment and found no evidence of bedbugs anywhere other than her bed. One article we read said that bedbugs are usually found within 4 feet of the bed.

We slept in her guest bedroom from September 29 until October 5th and found no signs of bedbugs at any time. My mother has slept in her plastic wrapped and sealed bed since we discovered the infestation with no signs of any bedbugs. Her rash that appeared on her neck and forearms has improved tremendously.

This morning my 87 year old mother received a very threatening letter from her landlord taped to her door. Needless to say she was very upset and in tears when I spoke with her on the phone. We originally had assured her that she was in no way reckless or negligent and this was not her fault and not to worry, so it came as a tremendous shock for her to receive a letter of this nature. Further more, the heat treatment the landlord is requiring will damage most of the laminated and veneer furniture in her apartment and they want us to sign a document stating that they are not responsible for any damages incurred during the process. Preparing for the heat treatment is an incredible task in itself. The requirements are extensive and seem unnecessary based on our research.

We hope you can help us. If you have any questions, please contact me at 415-488-4969.

Sincerely,
Mary Lock

Is there any situation where a tenant of a 2 unit rental house should be responsible for bed bug extermination? My landlord is refusing to exterminate. He says my cat has caused fleas. I’ve found the bugs and have done a treatment of chemicals which has decreased them but not eliminated them. Also I do not know if the other tenant has them. He told me to speak to her about it.

Even if you brought the bed bugs yourself, the landlord in responsible for dealing with the problem. They have to get rid of the bed bugs in infested buildings and units and they must pay for extermination. According to the California Supreme Court case of Green vs. Superior court it was established that the “implied warranty of habitability” makes the landlord responsible for the repair of serious defects that affect habitability.

The Laurel Village Apartments located at 909 Leslie Road, El Cajon, CA 92020 is completely infested with bedbugs and the management refuses to exterminate these apartments … even after tenants report it on a daily basis!

The manager always tell the tenants to go and buy rubbing alcohol to spray in the apartment and when the tenant insist on an exterminator, she tells them they would have to pay!

We’ve lived in our apartment for almost 2 years. The last few months I’ve had serious rashes and bites and just now discovered we have a bad case of bed bugs. I’m reading about these horror stories where the landlord might want us to pay for treatment and will evict us if we don’t pay for it. Is that true? I’m in florida and I can’t seem to find solid advice for my state.
This is a large complex so I would also like to know if any neighbors have them. I was thinking about posting anonymous letters on their door asking if they have the same problem, that way we can approach the landlord as a group and they can’t deny it. What are my rights in Florida?? Any help would be appreaciated!!
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Hi ,

Need some help.

We have been staying in one apartment in Sunnyvale for almost 3 1/2 years.
We did not face any issues. From last few months we observed that my son
( who is around 2 1/2 years old ) used to get some red patches on his body.
We thought he is having some allergy. One day we observed bed bug inside the
apartment. Seeing that we told to apartment’s rental manager. They talked to
pest control(CLARKS ) and they gave one flyier mentioning pre-treatment tasks
we need to do. We did and one day they did the HEAT treatment. After few days we
saw 1 bed bug on curtain seeing that we killed it. Then we went to rental
manager and told about it. They said CLARKS will come to inspect again.
CLARKS told when you see it try to put in some ziplock kind of thing to show
them. After that we did not see any bed bug so far. But after seeing it we
threw our couch/mattress/spring boxes ( not bed as we dont have one )

We decided to rent a new apartment in another community. We gave notice
to vacate our current apartment community. Seeing that rental manager told you need
to pay for the bed bug treatment and property manager from management company
( who manage our current community ) will send the bill. We got the bill for
$1774.00 and they are asking us to pay asap. We were not told that cost is
this much ? We were not told if we need to pay.

We came to know that bed bugs have been in other units of the apartment
Also before where treatment was done. May be these came into our unit from those
affected units in past.

Once our rental manager told that their managing company has good lawyers.

Can you please suggest what should I do in this case?

City : Sunnyvale, CA 94086

Thanks
Amit