Submitted by "Anonymous" on 10/31/2008

My first experience with bedbugs was met with a snide grin from the building manager as he told me it would be two weeks before he would get an exterminator in to look at the problem. I stayed away for two days and came back to find my room literally crawling with cockroaches and bedbugs...everywhere. I collected a few things, did my best to make sure I took no passengers and I left for the better part of a week hoping to disrupt their breeding program, or at the very least not get driven nuts by the constant biting. Finally I got a spray bottle of isopropyl alcohol and put it beside my bed with a flashlight. I've been leaving the lights on at night and that seems to have pushed the roaches out. I've taken to baiting the bedbugs out of hiding before I go to sleep and then spritzing them with the alcohol. So far it seems to have taken care of the adults...I don't seem to be seeing them, but the nymphs don't stop coming.

Moving into this building was my first mistake. Not moving out when I first noticed the exterminator visiting was my next one. Management in this building is apathetic and negligent of the consequent spread of the infestation.

Submitted by "Anonymous" on 01/11/2008

Rented a room there for 6 months - was bedbug infested for at least the last 3 months until the end of my tenancy on July 1, 2007. I knew there were bugs but I didn't know what they were, having never seen a bedbug in my life. I'm a prairie girl - they looked to me like woodticks. When I moved out, I discovered the management had known about the infestation but did not serve notice to any of the tenants, and did nothing to address the problem. When I left, I had to throw out everything I owned including furniture, bedding, clothing, EVERYTHING, at the risk of carrying the problem to my new place. Added to the cost of moving, replacing EVERYTHING I owned. There is no such beast as a minor problem with bedbugs and they do not respect boundaries like an apartment wall. If your neighbours have bedbugs, you have bedbugs too.