brought the dog around the end of April. The dog didn't find anything.

Exterminator insists that they are gone even though we showed him one that we had caught two days before he came, and he confirmed that it was a bed bug. He says it's "normal" to see a few of them 2-3 months after the extermination process. He says we only need to worry if we discern a regular pattern of bites.

This contradicts everything I've read about bedbugs, so I am suspicious. However, we can't afford an exterminator on our own and this is the one the landlord provided.

So as of now we don't have bed bugs, yet I continue to see one or two around!!? This makes no sense to me. I am hoping (perhaps against hope) that the exterminator is right, but we continue to see them.

Some of us are travelling for the summer, so we will see in August and follow up with the landlord if necessary, though I no longer have much hope at this point.

Meanwhile, the landlord has threatened to raise our rent by 300 dollars in one go, to well above the prevailing market value for a unit this size.