Submitted by "meandthebugs" on 10/20/2008

I live at 447 S. Grand View St. and recently saw the largest cockroach I've ever seen in my life. Not exactly a bedbug, but still indicative of infestation in general.

Recently, the building was scouted by an investor bank. The next day there was a posting on my door asking if we wanted to fumigate. I don't know if there was a correlation.

Further, there was a snafu in my billing one day, and the manager said it was okay. A few days later I filled out a survey saying there were bugs in the building. The next day I got a letter saying that the snafu was in fact reinstated.

Don't live here. It's horrid.

Submitted by "bug\'s got me" on 09/22/2008

I was over at my friends house in this building and in less than 2 minutes I had developed this string of bites on my arm that I had set on the arm of his couch. It's bed bugs and they're bad. He didn't know what it was. He said that he asked the people when he moved in if they had any pest problems, and they said, "nope not a problem here." I told him that they lied to him. I'm sure he figured that out when he found out that everyone had complained to the management before time and time again.

Submitted by "Infected with Bug bites" on 09/11/2008

I started getting bed bug bites as soon as I moved in and the Managers pretend that they don't know about the bugs. I have been so bit up that my
ankles got infected and I went to the emergency hospital twice. The spraying does not work, the
building needs drastic measures like maybe tenting the whole building. I have spoken to most of the tenants in this building and their other ones where the management is at 427 and 425. People have to throw out their furniture from the infestation and they put signs on the furniture saying they had to
throw the stuff out because of the bed bugs.
I was diagnosed with cellulitis and possible edema
because of the swelling from the infection from the bites. There are also spiders and roaches. The manager tells us that we should keep washing and dry cleaning all our stuff which would never stop and cost more money than any of us could afford and since the bugs never go away, that would be useless.
I had the health dept come out and he sited the
buillding to do something but they haven't and now
they have a meeting at the Health Dept,
at 3530 Wilshire Blvd 9th Floor.

Submitted by "Infested" on 07/27/2008

I've lived here for over a year and have had a bed bug problem from the beginning. I was never told about this before signing my lease, and when I moved in I had no idea what was going on.

Although management will have exterminators spray the apartment upon request, they only spray once unless you keep insisting the exterminators return, and even then they sometimes "forget" to spray my apartment.

The problem is severe. All my furniture is infested and sleep is difficult. I personally kill about ten bed bugs per day, but that is just a drop in the bucket. I will be moving soon. I'm sure I'll lose my deposit because I'm leaving my couch and my wall is stained with crushed bed bugs.