When we had asked your office about the claims of bedbugs in your building, you said the issue had been resolved and that there were no further complaints or evidence of bedbugs in the building in the past 6 months. When my boyfriend and I came and signed the lease, again we asked and you assured us it was not an issue and that if bedbugs were reported, your staff would remedy the situation. It’s now 7 days into September and we’ve been living in this building. This morning both my boyfriend and I wake up with a series of bites. Searching around before heading to class we discover bedbugs! We know the beasts were not with us at our last place when we moved from there in August, so we can only assume the bugs were here waiting for us when we moved in. We called your office to inform you and you said you’d send someone to confirm, but that no date could be provided. We don’t want to deal with bedbugs every night until you finally get around to eradicating them. No doubt I won’t be the first person to complain this week, and those elevator trips up/down give us both plenty of time to chat with other residents. —Itchy & Scratchy

This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2011.

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  1. so, why oh why, are you layig this on us? do you think that we can go in there and get rid of them for you?
    there is the bedbug registry on the net, hope you checked that out first? why the fuck would anyone in their right mind, even consider moving into a place that had them, even if they were sposed to be gone?
    these are all questions you should start asking yourselves.if i even heard that a place once had them, even 20 years ago, i would bypass it in a flash. you have to put the blame on you, for being stupid.

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  2. Of course the money grabbers will tell you they eradicated the pests ….. imagine how difficult it is to fill a flea-bag building when EVERYONE including YOU knew the history.

    Burn everything!

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  4. Did you get it in writing that the infestation was eliminated? No? Bummer for you. Like Koda said, burn everything…then move.

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  6. Famous Lies:

    “The cheque is in the mail”
    “I never had sexual relations with that woman”
    “Of course I’ll respect you after”
    “That dress does not make you look fat”
    “This won’t hurt a bit”
    “The dog ate my homework”
    AND…

    “Yes we have no bedbugs”

    If ’twas I who was itchin’ and bitchin’, I’d be ditchin’ my stuff and finding new -bugfree- digs. Pronto would not be fast enough.

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  7. sweeet…..
    burn motherfucker, burn!

    not before stashing a few and releasing them in the office of the landlord next time you go to complain.

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  10. OP should have asked to get the landlord’s claims in writing, as part of the lease or else you get free rent everyday you have them. See how fast the exterminator gets there.

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  12. Yeah, bed bugs really never do go away. Once you’re hit…. it’s next to impossible to get rid of them because they crawl in the walls and shit and spread from apt to apt and are hard as fuck to get rid of once they do get into the walls. If ANYONE says they’ve had a bed bug problem in the past, don’t even bother renting.

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  14. I rent and had a problem with bedbugs in my new apt and as it was an early infestation, they were able to nip it in the bud. I’ve been living here a year now with no further re-occurrences. So don’t believe all the internet hype about one bedbug and suddenly your life is ruined forever. I certainly bought into it. But if the landlord is doing shit-all while the little fuckers multiply, you really need to get the hell out of there. Like yesterday.

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  17. Let’s just say they really didn’t have bedbugs anymore. Would you really still move in there knowing they’ve had so many problems? I wouldn’t! An apartment complex of that size will always have bedbugs.

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  19. Has anyone else randomly started to scratch for no apparent reason since reading this bitch, or is it just me??

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  20. it’s just you…kidding. since listening to the cbc radio about the bedbug book, i’ve had the heebie jeebies

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  21. No. But I have a gash on my head that’s healing and its itchy-kinda, avast.

    Don’t ask how I got a bloody gash on my head.

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  22. (Ok, I’ll bite) Kitty? How did you get a bloody gash on your head? lol
    Seriously though, what did you do? You ok?

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  23. Actually, it’s stupid. I was washing the side of my bathroom cabinet and I was bending over and I sliced my head on the corner of the vanity.

    And since I have an infected lymph node on the back of my neck, which spread the infection all through the side of my head, the gash got infected and I had to go on insane antibiotics.

    I haven’t been able to sleep on my left side for weeks and when lymph node infections spread to the rest of your head and neck it hurts like a mofo. You’ll just be sittin’ down watching tv and the pain will be radiating. The doc said people with autoimmune diseases get this shit all the time. 🙁

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  26. Ouch! Sorry to hear that PK. That sounds like a major PITA …er….head… lol..to say the least. I’ve done that kind of thing before. Like the other night, I stubbed my big toe on my right foot trying to step over the ottoman. I ended up splitting my toenail down the middle, almost all the way to the cuticle. Itchy?…. mmmmmmyyyyeaaaahhhhh, not so much. After I was done turning the air blue, I felt so stupid. Now, it looks like my foot is dirty cuz I have all this dried blood up under my toenail that I can’t wash out. (Don’t mean to be gross) It’s better now though. I hope you get better soon, hun.

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  28. Maybe the OB brought them with them. You have a buggy friend visit you or help you move and now you’re infested.

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  32. Yeah, just a big old scooshy faced mooch dog. If you stopped patting him he’d bump you with his head or reach out with his paw, I made the mistake of trying to eat a smoked meat sandwich on the porch. He got half, just by lying there with his head on his paws and looking at me. Manipulative s.o.b. >: )

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  34. That’s what happens when I eat bacon. Molly somehow gets half my strips by pure cuteness, alone!

    “OH! hihi, mommy! Do you have BACON? Mmm I’d sure love some BACON! So I’m going to sit here all pretty-like and make chirping noises until you pony up some pig! I’m sooooo preeeeetty!”

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  36. I think I’m in this building. I’m in the 2nd tower and haven’t gotten them yet.. OP which tower are you in and approx which floor? It’s only a matter of time before they get to me :

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  38. If it’s a high rise, you’re better off getting out of the lease now. They’ve had this problem for years and although they spray individual units for bed bugs, they do come back after a couple months… the whole building is infested.
    Get forms from the tenancy board to get out of the lease for medical reasons.. your doctor will fill them out and you can terminate the lease with 30 days written notice.

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  39. Cheese and rice, hugo, put a warning on that first pic!

    That’s worse than Ivan’s soulless ginger and sebastard’s ass jelly COMBINED.

    :|

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  45. DEAR FUCKING GOD!! It’s HIDEOUS!! You hear about these things but you think, this can’t be true, they’re not real. But then, you see a picture of one and it challenges every belief about life you’ve ever held true. I don’t know what to believe anymore. Everything just seem so….so…(sob)…hopeless now! Do you think fire would be enough, Ivan? I thought they were born from the fires of hell itself, or is that not true anymore either? Jesus! What do I believe??!!

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  49. lol…what kind of a yield are we talking here, Ivan…1, maybe 2 megatons? Or is that overkill?

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  50. I think it’s the contrast between the the red blood and the pastey pale, undead skin. The come-hither look is pretty hot too.

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