Northern Pine Management    |    Michelle | Northern Pine Management    |    Howard    ,    Wisconsin 54303    Landlord Complaint 23-0511

We moved in Monday 10/29/12. Two days later on Wednesday 10/31/12 my fiance sent me a picture and a text notifying me that he had a rash on his body at 6:07 am shortly after he had arrived at work. I talked to my mother who asked me to ask my landlord Michelle if the previous owners had pets. Maybe indicating that they were flea bits. Michelle notified me that they did not. I told her these bugs had appeared on my one wall by my bed mostly. She asked us to catch one and bring it down to the office, which later my fiance did but she was no longer in the office. The next morning 11/01/12 she contacted me asking if she could look around in the apartment. My fiance and I had found 6-7 more around 4 am when he gets up for work. I had those ready for Michelle to look at when she came to see the apartment. She thought they were bed bugs and notified Valley Pest Control to come deem that, that is what they were. They did a chemical treatment that day, which was 100.00 billed to our account. On 11/03/12 my mother and I sat down with Michelle to express our rapid infestation growth and the impossibility of us bringing them in. She said she would expect the adjoining units by us and notified us that she had not found anything. On 11/07/12 around 11:00 am my fiance's job notified him that he had to get a doctors note saying the rash was not contagious before he came back to work. We talked with my hotel to verify that they did not come from there and I was provided a note from the pest control specialist stating that the hotel was clean from any bug infestation. I will be receiving one from my previous landlord stating the apartment was good for occupancy also. The situation has not gotten better since the first treatment. I usually find multiple at night around 11:30 when I get home from work. We received these sticky straps that do not have anything in them to attract bed bugs. The Valley Pest control gentlemen came back in today 11/12/12 to ask us how things were going. We notified him that things have not going good and that I had found around 20 of them last night 11/11/12 around the window and bass boards. They appeared very small just past the newborn stage with a tiny amount of blood in them. He notified us that he was going to spray the bass boards in our room because that is where they are mostly located and to see how that would good. My mother took a picture of a shell that they shed. We have pictures, texts, messages documenting events.