Comments on: Help Bed Bugs! http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/help-bed-bugs Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Abby http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/help-bed-bugs#comment-36118 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:18:32 +0000 http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights?p=5265#comment-36118 Hi Brandon! Technically, you are still on a lease and ending it a month early may mean that you would have additional fees to pay and you also might not get your security deposit back. I just want to tell you that if you don’t pay the rent then the landlord may be forced for file for an eviction in a small claims court. Hopefully, that doesn’t happen.

On the issue of bedbug, the tiny monsters that started this all, it is the responsibility of the landlord to keep the building safe, healthy and livable. If he has been treating the apartment but the bedbugs are still there, then that must mean the treatments are not working. He needs to have another exterminator to help kill all the bed bugs.

If the landlord is not listening, you can file for a complaint and let a mediator help. The complaint is going to cost $35 with RPA but that would force your landlord to really get down to business and start killing all those bugs as soon as possible. If you think about it, that’s actually a better option instead of breaking the lease early and then paying for someone to treat all your things before moving.

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