Submitted by "Anonymous" on 10/01/2008

I lived in this building in '04/'05 and had such a terrible infestation that I had to throw away everything I owned that I couldn't put in the dryer and move out of downtown. I believe that the infestation either came from a neighbour in denial or one of the many mattresses that was left in Blood Alley by the neighbouring rooming house.

The reason I'm posting now is that I see there was an infestation as recently as January of this year (2008), which goes to show that this issue needs to be dealt with very seriously or the problem will carry on for years.

FYI, I had the apartment fumigated 4 times and the treatments did nothing except make my place smell bad. Freezing or drying items to a certain temperature and then isolating them in sealed plastic bags was the only solution. That, and moving to a non-contaminated apartment.

Submitted by "annon" on 01/29/2008

merry xmas 2007! i was away from my rental suite and returned a week before xmas to find out that there were now bedbugs in my place. my awsome landlord was right on it and had the property management group assign an inspection/ treatment of my suite. in the meantime, it was xmas holidays and i felt homeless as i didn't want to go back into the suite before the followup treatment, 7-10days later.
i was told that the neighboring suites were to be treated as well, which took about a week and many persistent inquiries. upon talking to one other tenant on the same floor, i learned that his neighbors to the other side had a bedbug problem earlier in the year which had not been reported to the management group.
it seems as though the problem (in my suite) is dealt with. i have no information about any other suites in the building.