You’re best bet is to buy an air mattress so the bugs cannot get inside of your bed. Put all your clothes in the dryer, and bag them up. Bed bugs travel and hitch a ride on your clothes. If you have any holes in your walls, cover them with tape. B/C bed bugs can live behind your walls, also under your carpet. So get rid of your carpet or get new carpet. Your apt complex has to give you new carpet once a year its state law. GET RUBBING ALCOHOL 99.9%, IT KILLS BED BUGS! Spray everything and even on the bugs.

They flatten up and dies in 2 seconds! But it does not kill the eggs, at Walmart you can buy 3 bombs that kill the eggs and bugs for $11. Throw out your couch, get used to sitting in a plastic chair or buy a new couch and put a plastic cover on it! Also do not let others come in with out checking. Bed bugs are an epidemic almost everyone has them if not they will get them. Most of all keep looking for help its there.

There are other people in this building that have then also, because when I went to their apatrments I could feel them all over me. And some of them have just moved, and others tried to get them taken care of, I no longer talk to most people in here, they just don’t seem to care, they will not admit that there is a problem in this building, and I don’t want to move and take them somewhere else, but, I cannot take this anymore, I have tried various things myself, I have asthma, and it makes me more and more sick trying to get rid of whatever these things are, I don’t know what to do.

I have contacted the Health Department in the past, and nothing happened. I think this company is so big, the apartment owners that no one will do anything to them. I am at the end of my rope, I don’t know what to do anymore. I guess i will have to get rid of all of my furniture and lots of my belongings, I even think they are in my car, I have soaked my car with all kinds of things, and nothing helps. You cannot hardly see them, they are very, very, tiny, and they bite really hard and it
feels like pincers, and leave a little red spot, sometimes I see them they are tiny like the head of a pin, and white, and they bite like hell, it is really painful.

I live in a nightmare, don’t know what to do anymore. Am disabled, don’t have much money, but, enough, but, no one will listen to me, or help me, what do I do?

I watched a video, and if I find it, I’ll add another comment, but in the video, they guy explained how he built his own bed bug treatment truck / trailer that uses heat to kill bed bugs.

Turn this into an opportunity and make your own heat treatment unit, write it off :) and start servicing other complexes as well. This is the only solution that I can think of that would work for everyone without the worry of pesticides, etc.

If you choose to do this and it works for you, I’d love a mention on your new website :)

As for myself I totally understand the resident complaint and initially believe that the treatments should be covered by the the owner. But my disconnect is what happens when you treat the units and residents fail to comply and or purchase used furniture etc. Should the Owner again pay for these services? I know most people will comment, ” evict the resident” these is easier said then done. I tried and the court ruled against this stating that “the resident may not have caused the issue” so basically for a 120 unit at $450 a unit comes out to $54,000 just the initial treatments!

I don’t know how you feel about this but how can a Owner keep “footing” the bill when residents and the courts fail to comply? We managers are the escape goats… You think we want out residents to live with Bedbugs? We have a moral obligation to treat residents with respect and yet what we receive in return is nothing short of harassment. Put yourself in the Manager’s or Owner’s place and think how would you like to incur these fees?

Just so you know for the year 2011 alone we have spent $122,000 in pest control measures. When does it end?

Can you take some pictures of the bed bugs and send them to me badbedbugs@gmail.com, and I’ll make sure to post them on the site after I edit them.

Thanks!