t's the winter of 2010 now, and for the first time, I woke up last week with itchy ankles covered in mosquito bite-type welts. They weren't horrendous nor that numerous, so I ignored them. Until my roommate woke up one morning with giant welts all over his hands and wrists.

That night, after work, I searched my bed area for any signs, and I did find two bed bugs nestled in the seam of my box spring. I killed them with rubbing alcohol and put them in an old medicine bottle as proof.

I called the landlord/management immediately the next morning, and they said they would contact the exterminator and I should receive a call to arrange an appointment...

THIS is the problem: the building's management continues to exterminate individual apartments at different times, and all that happens is the bed bugs move into my neighbors' places and they will probably return with a vengeance 2 weeks to a month later! Hello people! It's either: bomb the whole building or nothing! You can't exterminate apartments one at a time! That's counter productive!!!