ll I didnt know what they were) in my apartment (also despite preventative measures I funded). Never having dealt with these problems I had no idea what to do. Filled with stress and little sleep, my buliding staff literally laughed when I asked where I was suppose to live while my place was treated. This situation as many other tenants have expressed are so poorly handeled by the building staff, I would advise anyone not to live here. Several other appartments in my hallway were also infested, thus they treat one place causing bugs to run to the nextm, never solving the problem, all at the tenants expense of time, money, and stress!!!!

occasion's to contact the owner but she had been evading them.
I had no interest in spraying toxic chemical's in my apartment considering that I suffer from several chemical sensitives. The spray that they offer is not one-hundred percent effective and I've heard from several people that they have gone through several sprying's, thus repeated exsposure. I tired for a couple of month's to deal with this problem on my own...cleaning, washing and chalking baseboard's and every crack possible. I even had to throw out furniture and electronic's which isn't easy to do when you don't have the mean's to replace any of these iteam's.
When the buiding was sold and the new property management took over I gave them a couple of week's to settle in before I reported the problem with them.
It seemed that no matter what I did to get rid of them they kept returning.
The new company was quick to offer to spray with toxic chemical's. When I told her my prediciment she said she would get back to me about using alternative method's. When I didn't hear from her for two week's I went back to her and she would say stuff like she was waiting for the pest control company to get back to her...this little routine of her's went on for several more week's. So...I began to put every thing in writing!
I SHOULD OF DONE THIS FROM THE BEGINNING!
Once again I was meet with delay's and excuse's as to why I hadn't gotten back an answer. The other option's avilable to get rid of bedbug's, in a non-toxic manner is using a steam treatment or frezeing the parasite's.
Then she said that I would need a note from my doctor concerning my chemical senstivities. I provided her with said letter. Once again I heard nothing back from her.
While all this was happening what I couldn't figure out was, where were fully grown adult bedbugs where coming from? They would show up in the middle of the day and start crawling up my leg, desparate for their next meal. That's when I found them wandering the hallway's!!! She had already done a inspection of my apartment as part of her asscessment that I needed treatment. Now I was told that another inspection was being done by the pest control company [more delay's]. A couple of day's later when I asked about it she admitted that several unit's had them. I even asked my nextdoor neighbour and he admitted to having them.
I had enough finally and sent them a strongly worded letter telling them I would be taking action against them for neglect and I would also take into account the undue stress this was causing me. Low and behold I recevied a written letter, almost immediately, slipped under my door stating that they would only provide the chemical treatment and that if I wanted it done without chemical's that I should ask the province to pay for it [O.D.S.P.]. This came as a surprise after I submitted the required letter from my Doctor which she said was necessary for them to do my unit in a non-chemical manner?.
I'm sorry this letter is so long but I wanted you to see the pattern of behaviour they used in delaying this process.
Unfortunately this isn't the only problem with this building since they took over. On several occassions there has been dirty old mattress's and couch's strewn around the back of the building and the garbage bin's are no-longer being emptied as frequently as they use to be so lately there has been a stench eminating up, throughout the building on several floor's. They tired to mask the smell using chemical deodorizer's.
Also they began hallway renovation's over a month ago. This mean's that matainance has pretty muched stopped except for two seperate sweeping's. One of them was because I had to ask for it. The worker's left chunk's of debris laying around on the floorand my major concern was that they were removing asbesto tile's. The renovation company is from out-of-town and at one point they disappeared for two week's? They returned finally this week[July 9-14] and have been sanding down everything including our door's. The dust out in the hallway is incredable. This was even after a lite sweeping. It has now tracked into my apartment as I sure it has with other tenant's.

My motto in life is; action's speak louder then word's...In my opinion, this perticular property management company has very little requard for it's tenants and their property.

t bed bug detectors - the sticky pads that are supposed to catch them. We thought we had gotten rid of them, because the bites stopped, but this week they were back again. Now we are going through the washing process again and purchased mattress, box spring, and pillow casings. We're debating our next move.