found a baby roach on the wall by the kitchen doorway. the only way the roaches could have gotten in would have been from the kitchen drain when i left in unplugged. should i inform management? how do i go about this? please respond! i dont know what i should do.

eliminate entry.
The problem is, while you can control your own apartment, you can't control the apartment of neighbours around you - the landlord here has tried spraying and putting the gel in the cupboards, but if they spray in one apartment and it gets rid of them - they just move onto the next.

We didn't see roaches at all UNTIL the landlord started spraying and then they showed up and havent left since. I saw 2 in my apartment and 1 in the hallway just last night, January 4th. They are a mixture of baby and full grown roaches.

Theyre not detrimental to living here - the apartment isnt over run, and we've only ever seen them near the kitchen of course - but it is still a nuisance and pretty gross.

he bug issues but I'm not sure how effective it was, I wasn't there to see any changes. Would not recommend living here to anyone.

g that they don't have a problem. I then later found out that there is significant problems with bed bugs in that building alone.

I had called the city to report the issue because of it. I worked with the health inspector who came to check into the matter and it took him only a matter of 2 minutes to find them in my apartment. The inspector then began trying to contact various tenant for inspection and there was discoveries made however since not all tenants are available to be reach during business hours for the inspector, I began my own door to door campaign on several floors of this building and then discovered on a couple of floors in which tenants having the problem was around as much as 60 percent of them on 1 floor alone.


Some of the floors I confirmed bedbugs were on the following floors had issues with them:

2nd
5th
6th
7th
12th

I did not check all tenants however there is in fact a big problem with them in this building.
What was most surprising was to watch one night with seeing bed bugs (a couple of them) crawling in from the main door entrance.

I even kept a sealed can of the ones I caught and personally showed them to the superintendant.
All I can say is that, I don't recommend nor encourage anyone to live there if you hate these little critters because from my own experience, I found management very passive in taking this matter seriously. Unless one barks significantly - only then do they action it more significantly.

Because of this nightmare, I have just moved out. I had to plan 3 months ahead of time just to do as much as possible to minimize the chances of taking this with me. Each box was packed air tight and completely sealed with tape so I pray to god that I will not be taking them with me. I've had to also proactively take additional precautions with regular spraying of specific chemicals that kill them and will still need to be vigilant with this even after moving and perform rigorous inspections and continuous vacumming of new place just to ensure I've done my best to eradicate these pesky nasty creatures from my life and home.

I hope my writing this will help others to become aware of this problem is clearly a problem for this building.

Cheers

the entire building. And to be honest, Im not convinced enough is being done to fix this. Building management has been difficult to deal with in regards to solving this, and I imagine most tenants aren't going to put up the fight thats needed to get this issue fixed.

I'm hoping with spraying, and steaming, I might be able to move out without having to dispose of my furniture. But I sure as heck won't take the bugs with me even if it means losing some belongings (that I can't afford to replace).

If you live in this building, and you have this problem, call Public Health at 416-338-7600. They can give you information about what you can do to help solve the problem, and infomation about what your landlord is required to do to solve the problem (which I must mention, it is recommended they spray for bugs a MINIMUM of 2 times, do not let management tell you otherwise!).