ittle red welts, and then demand some action from your landlord.

t with on Monday. I waited and he did not get back to me. I tracked the caretaker down and he told me that he would book the apointment. Another week passed and I heard nothing from the caretakers at which point I told them it was taking too long and I was worried that the problem would spread and the bugs were multiplying. At this point the caretaker told me that I had brought the bugs in and they did not cover exterminations. He advised me that the last tenant had to pay for the extermination and if I wanted he could get me a quote, and asked me if I still wanted to proceed, and offered to break my lease as I did not seem happy there.

There are many elderly people in this building on a fixed income, I asked him how many would be able to afford this extermination cost if they found it, and how quickly the problem would spread if you left it up to the tenants to exterminate their own place. How many people living from pay cheque to pay cheque would just ignore it and move out and then the whole building would have a full on infestation on their hands. I told him that this was in violation of tenants rights. He asked for documentation and by the end of that day I provided it to him. He said he would schedule an appointment with the exterminator. I called him on Monday to ensure this was completed and was advised that it would be a two week wait to have the exterminator come out. So just a recap this is already five weeks of little to no action on behalf of these caretakers while these bugs are multiplying and I am paying them rent for a unit I am no longer living in.

I gave the caretaker the list of his responsibilities for what the exterminator needed done in order to ensure the bed bugs did not return such as sealing all holes in the walls and base boards. This was never completed, nor did the caretakers advise me of what happened in the treatments and what was discovered and where the bugs were discovered.

The suite is then sprayed a second time that month. Two months go by and I then decided to take my bedroom back and try to sleep in my bed, and as I am placing the mattress cover on the mattress a bed bug scurries by. I then advise the caretakers that they need to heat treat the unit as the infestation was left too long untreated in the beginning and something more drastic needs to be done. They refused as this was more costly. They offered to spray the unit again. As the caretakers were away on vacation for two weeks I made two apointments to meet with the owner of the building to discuss what had occured in this suite. Both meetings he agreed to and were on his time table and he failed to show up for either meeting. As they had previously agreed to break my lease I then took them up on the offer and made the decision to throw away all of my furniture and start again. If the building was managed by competent caretakers I would have made the decision to stay and fight the infestation until it was eliminated, but as I was being shuffled aside and the issue was largely ignored until it was out of control I had no other option but to leave with my clothes and items that could be heated in the dryer.

This cost me over $3000 in replacement furniture and removal fees all because the management failed to take the appropriate action in a timely fashion.

Bed bugs are a fact of life in the west end. I am in no way stating don't rent a place in this building because it has bed bugs. It is poorly managed and this is why I am warning against this place. Don't put yourself through this move on to the next listing.