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Bed Bug Infestation

Summary: Having a bed bug infestation in a hotel or apartment complex is commonplace, whereas prior to 1999 finding a facility with a bed bug infestation had not been heard of since the 1940s. Bed bug infestation problems are eating away at the profits of hotel and apartment management firms.

Bed bug infestation problems are known to exist in over twenty-five percent of all the rooms offered by the US lodging industry. Of 4,402,466 rooms Only one percent are affected, but that still represents over 44,000 rooms. If you do a lot of traveling you are an odds on favorite to encounter bed bugs.

Apartment management companies have it much worse. A huge influx of

renters from foreign countries where bed bugs are tolerated, has created an environment where total bed bug control is nearly impossible.

Bed bug control is a labor intensive endeavor and costs for treating a single hotel or one bedroom apartment can easily exceed $300 per treatment. Multiple that figure times hundreds of units and suddenly profits fly out the forecasting window. Major hotel and apartment management firms are facing a gloomy financial future unless they can quickly bring this problem under control.

Our advice is to work closely with a professional pest control company that completely understands the pest. Arrange for the pest professional to present an "in-service" program for employees to teach them how to identify bed bugs and recognize the signs of bed bug activity. Your pest management professional should participate in formulating a written proceedure for inspecting rooms, reporting problems and acting agressively to stop and newly discovered infestations.

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Nadia
19 May 2009, 14:48

My neighbor who lives one hadfloor below bed bugs,then in early february I saw one on my sheets. I told my lanlord about it ,but he didn't want to beleive me.I bought a bb spray and kept using it.I moved to another room to sleep. The bb infestation was so bed in my neighbor apartment,that it was coming more and more in my bed room.After one month I saw them in my daughter's bed room (Which next to mine),then in the bathtub and on the bathroom's walls. In May ,and after the neighbors moved out,my landlord brought the exterminator and he treated both bedrooms in my apartment,but he didn't do nothing in the apartment below,where the problem started. After a deep cleaning,I thought I was done with bb,but today and after one week I found two bb ,one hiden in the drawer and one one the foor. I am really frustrated,please what can I do next?

mitch
28 Nov 2010, 09:27

What are the tenant laws regarding bed bugs in PA. I moved in a year ago without any problems and recently my apartment complex has been doing unit inspections of all the apartments and now I think I might have bed bugs. I am on section 8 and have 3 children and I am a single mother I do not want to move and I am very afraid of being evicted for this if i report it. I also am low income and I cannot afford to pay the extermination fees. Please help. Does my landlord have to pay for it? and can they evict me bacuse of it??? I know they had problems in the past with other units having bed bugs.

Ask the Exterminator
29 Nov 2010, 14:53

Every state has a Tenant's Rights division. Call your state's main switchboard and they will direct you.

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Bed Bug Infestation

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