About 2 months ago i started getting bites everywhere, i cannot afford to go out and buy new stuff, i am a stay at home mom with two small children and my husband only makes minimum wage, my question is can i sue the neighbor and make him buy my new furniture, beds, and other stuff i am gonna have to throw out. i am the only one being bitten, and for the longest time my husband thought i was crazy, until today when i was re-arranging the bedroom and found some! some one help me!

and there it was this small flat brown bug.

so i looked it up and sure enough BEDBUGS! right after we noticed bites showing up here and there and lots of them. i also found 1 in the bathroom of all places. i was so paranoid i ripped my house apart and cleaned like no other.

when i notified the landlord it was no shock to them and said they would send someone out between 12-2pm a day after and gave us a list of things to do like wash and dry our clothes and bag up everything etc.. so we did EVERYTHING.

the morning they were supposed to come we removed my cat and came back to the house around 11:30am to find that the exterminator had already sprayed and was leaving. he said he inspected and sprayed and found nothing in the mattress or couch and really questioned if we had them. we were so relieved to know that we might be able to actually sleep and not get eaten up. we even borrowed money to get mattress covers, threw away our couch, and haven’t taken our stuff out of the bags just in case.

about a week later i was in the bathroom dying my hair and i couldn’t believe my eyes. this bedbug was crawling out of a crack in the wall and fell into my dying supplies. all of that relief out the window! this time i kept it for evidence. the stress of having them is making us crazy! this just happened last night.

i feel for every single person who has ever come across a bedbug problem.

i feel that this place is inhabitable. we should not have to stay here 1 more night. but we have no where to go and no money. our families are trying to put money together for us to get outta this hell by the end of the month.

we want to leave today. shouldn’t the landlords at least pro-rate our rent? or something?? we did not pay rent to live in hell!

i am tired of not sleeping, living in bags, having no furniture, cant even have people over and bedbugs crawling out of the walls! this stress really messing with us and driving us mad! i get to talk to the landlord tomorrow and see what they will do.

NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE WITH BEDBUGS.
DON’T SETTLE PEOPLE!

wish me luck as i do for every1 with this problem.

I’ve had no sleep, up with the bites an the itching an scratchy an being not able to sleep…so i went to s.m.e.r.l.s. low income attorneys an told them about this so they took the case an the slumlord sold the building when he was notified to take care of the mouse an bedbug infestations…so we got a new owner September an they started treatment for bedbugs

Late oct.2011..we had had a bedbug sniffer dog detect the bugs….cool…an they sprayed an heat treated an i had to do all the laundry an throw a couch out but number 12 apt didn’t have bedbugs…weird so i know for a fact i got them from this old carpet that was never changed.

This has been the worse experience i ever went thru..the laundry cost over 100.00$ which i didn’t have an the energy to put everything in bags an have to keep them in bags til after the second treatment was awfully long to keep getting out of them garbage bags our cloths an towels ..it was not easy to keep everything in bags an packed up in the middle of Ur apt, i felt so discombobulated!

So now it s been just over a month my apt has been treated i am now starting to feel them again ….uuugh…but not as bad as b4 …ooohh..man ….should i sue the old caretaker ?….the new owners fired him the ex caretaker..now he moved …i’m so mad at the ex caretaker for not caring, an i have a child she s 3 yrs old an an wow…i cant explain how upset i’m with him….

It did not happen fast enough so my friend took matters into her own hands. She threw away her bed and bedding, two couches and various personal items. She was totally paranoid about these bugs. When I went to visit she showed me some that she had caught. I went home and started tearing my home apart so I know how she was feeling. After she threw her furniture away she started cleaning, she vacuumed everywhere, scrubbed the walls and cleaned the walls. She cleaned until she made herself sick. She is a sixty-five year old woman that had open heart surgery a couple of years ago and was in a coma for a month. Since that time stress and something like frenetic cleaning bring on terrible pain attacks. No doubt sleeping on the floor did not help her get proper rest after all this cleaning.

Finally, she was notified that an exterminator would be there and the instructions for what she needed to do to prepare for the treatment. Unfortunately, she was not ready when he arrived. She asked for an additional five minutes. She indicated that she had two heavy pieces of furniture to move away from the wall. He said that he did not have time for this and was not going to continue the treatment.

Things went down hill fast. My friend was suffering from lack of rest(the floor is hard) and stress. The bug man called the manager and she entered the verbal altercation. I know my friend was wrong, she should not have called the woman a fat pig. A situation like this can really get to you. Well it is really getting to my friend, after living there for seven years she is being evicted from Madera Court. She was given a summons to appear in court in Surprise, Az. That is a long way from 35th. Ave and her without a car.

The apt. people a lucky they are just dealing with my yelling friend. If it were me I would be looking at suing for the damage and the stress this has caused my friend. Additionally, I think she should be given back her deposit and compensated for any rent incurred during these buggy times. Furthermore, She should be reimbursed for whatever costs may be included for replacing her bed and bedding, two couches and various personal items. Madera Court should consider the physical capabilities of their residents before making demands that are overwhelming for that person. Maybe they should offer to help move those heavy pieces of furniture. I know the bug problem is not the apts. fault, but it is not the residents either and they are the ones with their lives completely disrupted and in my friends case homeless.

Shame on you Madera Court and just so everyone knows they are located at 8135 N. 35th. Ave. O! and one other thing I forgot. My friends neighbor was not ready either, but she had a different bug man and he just went ahead and bombed right over the child’s toys.

1. Don’t risk cheap hotels, and even the nicest ones you need to lift up the mattress and check for brownish reddish spots or the actual bugs themselves.
2. Don’t let your kids have sleep overs at other peoples houses without making sure that where they’re staying at doesn’t have bedbugs.
3. Don’t let anyone or anything into your house that has been around bed bugs recently. (I would strip down naked tie off the clothes in a bag and wash them at work while changing into fresh clothes before I ever went home after a treatment)
4. Don’t get into a friends car if you know he has beg bugs at home.
5. Treat bed bugs like the plague it is and avoid them and people who have them no matter what the circumstance and you’ll be fine.

IF YOU HAVE BED BUGS
If the infestation is minimal contact a good pest control company ASAP, there may still be hope. If the infestation is abundant throw away everything, move out, and move on with your life, you’ll be glad you did.

I am suing for the cost of my hotel stays, lost rent money, additional sealed bag costs, laundry… etc., and I have a winning case. Anybody who rents/sells any place in which they KNOW has a bed bug problem has a special place in hell if you ask me. Because that’s exactly what my experience in this city has been thanks to the guy who I might as well call my slumlord.