Apartment Complex Tackles Bed Bug Infestation

Nate Morabito (Johnson City, Tennessee) wrote an article “Johnson City Apartment Complex Tackling Bed Bug Infestation” that will make your skin crawl. This apartment complex, John Sevier apartments, happens to be a government owned complex that houses senior citizens and people with disabilities. For the last year and a half these residents have had to live with roommates, but not just any roommates, bed bugs.

One resident, Bryan Saunders says “Vampires are real, they’ve evolved over the years into tiny, tick-size little bugs.” Another resident, Lavon Brooks, claims they are extremely itchy. Many of the residents realize that the bed bugs aren’t necessarily a health issue but an extreme nuisance. So as you can imagine, the residents at John Sevier haven’t gotten a good night’s sleep in quite a while.

So what’s the management going to do about this little problem? M & M Properties is the company that owns the apartment complex and their manager Harry Gibson hired Terminix to deal with the issue. However, many of the residents think they hired Terminix just a little too late, two years late in fact. A resident by the name of Brenda Springer claims that management has denied the fact that there even was a bed bug problem. But management denies Springer’s claim. A quote from the article states:

“We addressed it when we initially knew of the problem,” Gibson said.
“Here we thought we had it under control and about a month or so ago it
reoccurred.”

Terminix is holding sessions for volunteers and residents in order to prepare them for the upcoming extermination. Soon enough the apartment complex will be completely bed bug free and residents will be able to finally get a good night’s sleep. Springer however feels it’s “a band aid on a deep puncture.” However Gibson feels Terminix will remove the problem but agrees that a solution needs to be developed to keep future bed bugs out of the apartment complex.

Full story can be found here: tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/johnson_city_apartment_complex_tackling_bed_bug_infestation/14901/