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I just had a random weird thought and wanna know if there is anything to it. So bed bugs and several other bugs live off of human blood right? Ok, so what if someone in your apartment complex or maybe even in the same apartment with you has HIV or AIDS can it spread through them? If a single bug feeds off more than one person in a short period of time, wouldn’t they be dropping blood from the previous into the bite? Totally random but I’m kinda curious.

I moved into this minnesota apartment a month ago and everything is breaking or doesn’t work and now there is bed bugs. Everything i brought was new and now I fear I have to throw them out since they are infested with bed bugs. I’m sick of this apartment and feel i have been misled on its condition. Is there any way I can break the lease legally?

Who is responsible when bed bugs are found in an apartment? Is the landlord responsible for getting rid of the infestation? We didn’t have this problem in our last apartment, it happen after we moved – I think the apartment whole building has got it.
How I can be responsible forit when they will spray for every other kind of bug – roaches, ants ect ect . . . .

Also how does one go about proving it was already here? It’s my word against their’s isn’t it?
Bill, that’s why I am on the computer at 3.27am and not in bed. Every time I feel the slightest itch I am out of my bed like a shot of lightening but at this rate I won’t be getting any sleep at all for weeks until I can get this place under control.

I wish I could just drop everything and run for the hills but alas I cannot.

Thanks for the sympathy, I needed it. And I will look into the renter’s rights down here and see what I can find. Thank you.
Zero – I did read through my lease and no where in it does it implicitly state who is repsonsible for pest control, it simply says they can enter your home to spray if you aren’t there to let them in.

I have a bed bug problem in my apartment. I have been getting bit. So my logic is, alcohol is bad for the human body, therefore it is bad for a bed bug. I don’t know if that’s true. So if I drink alcohol, the alcohol goes in my blood, the bed bugs drink my blood, the bed bugs ingest the alcohol (which Im hoping will be a lethal dose considering their size), and die. Plausible?

Is it the landlords responsibility to take care of bed bugs when it is the tenants who have brought them into an apartment.

Someone on my sister’s floor had bed bugs and they some how migrated to her apartment. Although she is getting her apartment sprayed she wants to throw out her furniture but doesn’t know if she has to have the furniture treated before doing so. She is also worried that they will come back. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

My friend and her family found bed bugs in their apartment. I think they got them from the people in one of the other apartments. I told them to call the landlord so he can send in an exterminator, but they don’t want to call because they are afraid that the landlord will kick them out of the apartment because of the bugs. Could he really do that?
I asked her – they don’t have a lease, they go month by month or whatever it’s called.

I’m fairly certain that I have bed bugs living in my apartment and I want to get rid of them, so is this my landlord’s responsibility or my own? Will I be required to pay for an exterminator if the infestation needs it or will my landlord?

I live in Brooklyn, where, unfortunately, there is a severe bed bug problem. I’ve been lucky enough to live here for 2 years without being infested. (knock on wood.) However, so many friends who have had the pests have freaked me out so much that I’m considering getting the apartment I’m about to move into fumigated or sprayed even though there seem to be no sign of the buggers.
Is there a downside to this, other than cost? Or a better way to keep from getting bed bugs while moving?

I was wondering if they make some thing I can spray on myself that is safe that will repel bed bugs. I know there are some in my apartment complex and my place has been treated for them. I’m gladly able to say they are gone, but I don’t want them back.