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By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:13:03 +0000

Are landlords required to disclose info?
When I first moved to Denver the lady told us thy there was bed bug problem as we were signing our lease. She never said the people before us had them. 3 days later we have a notice that an exterminator is coming to treat for bed bugs.
I though we didn’t have any! Nobody told us anything!
Is this illegal??

By: landlord

landlord — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:20:50 +0000

As a landlord, I have been in the same situation with other landlords. I have wittnessed tenants getting old furniture out of dumpsters because they could not afford any…I have seen boyfriends bring old dirty matteress to their girlfriends and within a few days they are being eaten up with bedbugs, I have witness tenants going to another tenants apartment, stated their friends have bed bugs, but insist on going back to those same friends place. We have treated for the problem, but most of the tenants do not or will not help fix the problem when I give them instructions on how to do their laundry, wrap their matteress, vacum, get all clothing out of closets, shoes, boxes…but still they do not comply…so how do you get rid of a problem if they are not willing to do their part…it’s an on going battle for landlords also if tenants do not want to do their part in getting rid of this problem

By: Gerald

Gerald — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:01:24 +0000

My roommate and I experienced bed bugs along with 4 other apartments in the complex. We were asked to take all of our things out of the the place while 2 treatments would be performed over 2 wks. That we did along with all the washing and drying at a laundry mat at an absorbent amount. We only had 2 months left on our lease and decided we’d pay the next month’s rent and they’d let us out of the lease. we haven’t been back until today just to gather some final things like bed frames etc. We were able to photograph live bed bugs. What are our rights? Do we have to pay the last month’s rent, especially since they refused to adjust our rent for the 2 wks we weren’t able to be there?

By: Windows Backgammon

Windows Backgammon — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:08:54 +0000

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By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:09:26 +0000

Don’t bring belongings back and forth between the infested location and your safe haven. If CPS does get involved, they may be able to steer you toward someone who can help you with your landlord woes, possibly a rental attorney. Sometimes children get removed for habitability issues, however it is not likely considering the severity of the outbreak… In some parts of the country, your odds of having bedbugs are 1 in 4… That’s a lot of foster homes.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:02:47 +0000

Contact a renters attorney for advice specific to your state. Some states specifically address bed bugs and land lord responsibility, but it is likely to be a habitability issue. Who brought the bed bugs is often he said/she said unless you can prove they had foreknowledge of an infestation. In addition to treatments by your pest control, apply Diatomaceous Earth generously around your sleeping areas; they will still come to eat and you will continue to have bites, fewer and fewer for up to a month… Do not move before getting this issue under control; you’ll take them along. Continue treating with D. Earth following any move.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:52:58 +0000

Your mother will want to take precautions to prevent relocating the bugs with her. She has a number of options, but they may not be cheap. The first is to enlist a PCO with a bed bug dog… The dog should be able to isolate belongings likely to be infested. Another good option is heat treatment combined with Diatomaceous Earth. If sh decides to store her belongings, advise her to store them for a minimum of 18 months, to keep belongings at least a foot from walls and to surround her belongings with Diatomaceous Earth. This will outlast the bugs ability to hibernate while protecting the belongings of other storage renters and prevent other bedbugs from entering her belongings. Additionally, if she goes the storage route, look for a storage rental with high summer temps (year round warm climates help here).

Her specific rights depend where she lives.

By: landlord

landlord — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:21:41 +0000

As a landlord I understand way anyone would be upset. We have had 2 people in our building in the past 17 years that have reported bedbugs. As the landlord I called terminex as while the resident was standing there. We paid for both treatments. One apartment we could not understand how they got in as we have NEVER had a problem with them. The other unit was bringing in furniture from a dumpster that had the bed bugs on it. We still paid for the treatment. The tenant even held us up 3 weeks before prepping her unit. So not all landlords are bad. It is a wide spread problem in colorado. They can come in from you or your kids visiting someone that has them. We have had other units inspected and no sign of them. I think both parties need to work together but i feel the management should pay for the treatment.

By: mymess

mymess — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:24:51 +0000

I live in a 6 unit townhome building in Iowa my rent is income based or HUD long 3yr story made short1st end apt had the issue they were then evicted and the apartment sat empty for almost 9 mos. befoe the next residents moved in. After notifiying the office they agreed to have the bug gye take care of it and had her do the bedbug drill bag flip open you get the jist of it. They told her it would take a few treatments over a few weeks time. Keep in mind that she was a singel mom with 3 kids and worked a full time job. In the middle of all this the mangement was doing there anual hosekeeping inspection and it hapend to be the same time as her bug treatment when they seen her apartment (she was at work) they seen it in shambels of course. They called CPS almost looseing her kids she did loose her apartment and all her furniture wich was less then 6mos old.Im not even shure the carpet was dry befoe the next tenent moved in. This is when my daughter started geting bit. We live in the second apartment next to the one I just told you about. Her bedroom is on the wall that is shared with them. She got eaten bad even her face 20 mabey 30 bits on her neck and face. I didnt get bit as bad as her but i definetly got bit. However my son 2yrs (at that time) didnt seem to get bit and neither did my boyfriend when he would stay the night. I did my research gatherd up all the facts and then Told our landlord of my concerns. She straight said bring me one. That was easyer said than done. I even had our family doc. look her over ahd she agreed looked like bedbug bits. So still I hadent found any real evedence and decided to do what i could myself and bought a steam cleaner and some $25 bedbug spray.The problem seemed to go away.Utill a friendly conversation one day with the lady at the opisit end of my building had mentioned of her recent bedbug issue

Could it be I couldnt find any evidence of the be because they can travel upto 100 feet to feed?
and
Did my boy only apear to not get bit because he didnt have the same alergic reaction to the bits as me and my daughter did?
and
so not should I be worried they are on the way back down to my end of the building because the resident in #4 just told me she was getting bit by something and they really iched.

Why whem they were informed of this issue did they not treat the hole building? Because they do when it comes to roaches