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Hello,
My question today is if you have bedbugs can you break your lease? My landlord gave no notice when she came to exterminate for bedbugs, I was at work and had the babysitter and baby home with my three cats. She called and texted me all morning and I kept telling her no! I told her she didn't give enough notice ect,ect.. She finally talked me into and I didn't want to be the reason we still had them if we did. So with help from the babysitter they put the cats in my storage room with food and water(and open windows) and she took the kids out to lunch and then she just dropped them off at the mall with no money or supervision and okay bye. I picked them up within minutes later but texted her she was wrong to do this and she replied I'm not your babysitter, I really wanted to knock her out but I texted multiple texts and threatened to call housing authority on her. She never replied to any of my messages but I saved all hers. Anyways, when we got home the door was unlocked and they left a mess. I texted her again cause she wont answer the phone. But did not reply. So legally do I have a leg to stand on? They only fogged the place and I know that will do nothing. The only was really is to use heat treatment and I know that's expensive. Thanks
Heat is NOT the only thing that kills them. But to treat correctly they have to remove electric outlits & Base boards. There are 3 treatments every 10 - 14 days. NOT cant break a lease cause IF you do have them the LL IS treating for them. What the babysitter did had Nothing to do with the LL.
where there bedbugs before you moved in? did you bring them into the property?
what does the babysitter leaving your kids at the mall have to do with anything relating to your landlord??
an inconvenience of one day is a heck of lot better than bedbugs for months..
I could be wrong, but my understanding was that the LL took the babysitter and the kids to the mall and left them. That is why the LL said to the OP that she isn't her babystiter. So I'm thinking the babystiter is just a kid as well, why else would she be upset with them having no supervision.
You cannot break a lease because you live in filth and got bed bugs.
Living in filth is not the sole way to get bed bugs. You can be a spotlessly clean person and get it from a stay in the hospital, going to the movies, flying on an airplane, etc etc. The cleanliness of your house can have virtually nothing to do with it.
You cannot break a lease because you live in filth and got bed bugs.
Seriously? Not everyone who gets any kind of infestation is living in filth. There's no reason to be attacking OP and calling them dirty. I am borderline OCD about cleanliness and I've had roaches before thanks to neighbors / previous tenants.
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Not everyone who gets any kind of infestation is living in filth. There's no reason to be attacking OP and calling them dirty. I am borderline OCD about cleanliness and I've had roaches before thanks to neighbors / previous tenants.
