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Old 07-01-2015, 10:20 PM
 
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Can anyone recommend an apartment complex here in Austin that does NOT have bedbugs or roaches, because other than the housing authority of the city of austin aka (the projects) I Have not found one....
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Old 07-02-2015, 02:04 AM
 
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Blame it on the dirty hipster types from other cities. I guess apartment residents arent a majority of this forum but bedbugs in the city have become a huge issue in the past few years. This includes apartments and hotels. Gross!!
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Old 07-02-2015, 07:49 AM
 
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I am guessing you don't have a big budget?



What area are you looking?
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Old 07-02-2015, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Denver
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I've read that bed bugs and even small roaches have a tendency to follow people around because they hide in your property that you move from place to place. Deep clean your stuff the next time you move.
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Old 07-02-2015, 09:05 AM
 
Location: SW Austin & Wimberley
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Blame it on the dirty hipster types from other cities. I guess apartment residents arent a majority of this forum but bedbugs in the city have become a huge issue in the past few years. This includes apartments and hotels. Gross!!
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It takes a special kind of dumb to type something so patently false as this.
I don't know. The "Hipster" archetype is predisposed to eschew traditional lodging choices, opting for AirBnB, HomeAway, CouchSurfing.com and others, where the cleaning of linens and such are not industrialized and systemized to the degree found in, for example, a Four Seasons Hotel.

Bedbugs migrate in luggage, clothing and furniture, and a true Hipster doesn't regularly wash the skinny jeans found in the old tattered Hipster luggage.

Thus, the hypothesis is not entirely invalid, is it?
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Old 07-02-2015, 09:34 AM
 
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I don't know. The "Hipster" archetype is predisposed to eschew traditional lodging choices, opting for AirBnB, HomeAway, CouchSurfing.com and others, where the cleaning of linens and such are not industrialized and systemized to the degree found in, for example, a Four Seasons Hotel.

Bedbugs migrate in luggage, clothing and furniture, and a true Hipster doesn't regularly wash the skinny jeans found in the old tattered Hipster luggage.

Thus, the hypothesis is not entirely invalid, is it?
Yes. It is entirely invalid.

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Old 07-02-2015, 09:45 AM
 
Location: Austin TX
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Hipsters bathe quite regularly. It actually takes a LOT of work to look THAT dirty. I am of course laughing as I type this, recalling a visit once to a Rainey St. bar that had lavender-infused mustache wax in their unisex bathroom.

Cheap international travel and a turn toward more environmentally-friendly cleaning products in hotels has caused a resurge. Austin has some filthy complexes run by slumlords too cheap to maintain proper pest control, too. I truly doubt hipsters play a valid role in the matter even though they *can* be fun to pin the city's ills upon.
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Old 07-02-2015, 03:42 PM
 
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Cool slum lords are the real problem

Austin has some filthy complexes run by slumlords too cheap to maintain proper pest control, too. I truly doubt hipsters play a valid role in the matter even though they *can* be fun to pin the city's ills upon. [/quote]


You said it all....

That is the problem, when you tell your land lord that there are bedbugs in your apartment and a month and a half later they have not even treated it one time...how on earth can they not spread.

You can take them to work with you, to the hospital emergency room, to walmart, heb, anyplace you happen to go and bedbugs decide to hitch a ride,..you unintentionally spread them.

Of course if slum lords would treat properties promptly and correctly there would be less chance of them spreading...but I guess with all the overpriced apartments in this city, slum lords are just too poor to treat them.



and pay attention to apartment ratings, everybody is not over exaggerating or lying, those low ratings are for a reason.
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Old 07-02-2015, 04:02 PM
 
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I am guessing you don't have a big budget?



What area are you looking?



I have a regular budget, Austin jobs do not pay enough to cover it's, grossly, over inflated cost of living.

As long as it's located on a bus line, close to grocery and other necessities shopping, I don't care the part of town.
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Old 07-02-2015, 04:20 PM
 
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I have a regular budget, Austin jobs do not pay enough to cover it's, grossly, over inflated cost of living.

As long as it's located on a bus line, close to grocery and other necessities shopping, I don't care the part of town.
I recommend you move another city, unless you find a higher paying job. Austin isn't worth living in filth!
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