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Hmm, some official should decide if there is a space in that word or not, Oxford insists there's a dash. Anyway, I was wondering what you all thought about renting an apartment that received a few complaints about bedbugs last year, per the housing violations records?
I found an apartment today that I was really excited for, it fit all my requirements and look really well managed (and my interactions with the managing agent was very impressive), but when I checked the building for code violations I found a few complaints of bedbugs. There were about four (in a twenty unit building), all made the same time last year and non for the apartment which I am considering. Still I know the things are persistent and travel easily.
So if you were in my position would you take the place?
Nope wouldn't take it. So not worth the hassle to try and get rid of them. We had them in a section of our building at my company last year. The company threw out all the furniture and bought all new stuff but not before taking 4 months ripping absolutely everything out, carpet and all and fumigating the area several times. The thing is they have like an incubation period of one month where they might be dormant or something like that so you may think you're ok when you're not. We have a beagle come in every month to check for the bedbugs because apparently the bed bugs as small as they are have a distinct odor that beagles can pick up.
That was kind of my thoughts, but I was wondering what others would do as well.
I figure if the problem became bad enough that residents were reporting the landlord, it shows that they were maybe not very proactive with the problem. At this point though, haven't most apartments probably had bedbugs?
Definitely wouldn't take it. If there's been bedbug problems in the past at that specific building, despite the complaints being last year, there's a high probability that they could come back, and are even still in the building. In my opinion, it's just not worth the hassle or the costs involved in replacing furniture and other items if you do decide to take the apartment and you end up getting bedbugs.
The fact that people complained to the city and it is on the housing violations site would make me very concerned. Plenty of people report bedbugs on the NYC bedbug registry http://bedbugregistry.com/metro/nyc , but I would think that violations reported to the city are the ones where the landlord is not actually doing anything.
Or sometimes it can be that the tenants living in the building are the ones who are the problem too. I have read cases of people who collect furniture/trash off the street -- whatever anyone else is throwing away-- and just stuffing it in their apartments. This is the kind of behavior that puts tenants at a higher risk of bringing bedbugs into the building in the first place, and if you have either a non-responsive landlord or irresponsible neighboring tenants, you are in for trouble.
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