After threatening to withhold rent, they paid for the exterminator that I had hired who doused the place - sprayed in the walls, everywhere.
Thirteen months later (just after my 12-month guarantee expired), I got another infestation. Much smaller this time. I was already planning to move out, so I didn't bother pushing the building. I just hired the exterminators again to spray my new place. I have been fine since then.

I heard later that the building did hire the exterminators I used to spray the whole building. I have run into old neighbors still living there. They say that the management company is no longer Reneau Real Estate, but a Tysons Corner-based firm that is even less responsive. I'm not sure it was an improvement.

oke with neighbors and found that nearly everyone in the building has the same problem and they move around through the laundry system. We spray, threw out half our stuff, spent around $3000 replacing everything, and moved. We are bed bug free for 3 years now. When I called the managers to let them know exactly why we were moving, what other neighbors had told us their response was, "We don't have bed bugs." Note, this management also owns many other properties in the area. Be extremely careful as they offer low-cost buildings in a great neighborhood.

This isn't something to mess around with. My wife and I both suffered nightmares for months after we moved. We slept for months with the lights on to reduce the bites. We had our mattress wrapped in plastic bags for 2 years. When we moved, bed bugs were all over our dressers, behind postcards on the wall, everywhere. Both of us have been in tears over this. Even looking back on it gives me chills.

Dates: 2005-2007