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North Carolina’s misguided Landlord/Tenant Bed bug Liability …

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The North Carolina Senate will be considering a bill in 2012 that would have a huge impact on how landlords and tenants deal with bed bugs and who pays for treatment in the state.

H721, also known as the Landlord/Tenant/Bedbug Liability bill, passed in the North Carolina House in June. I have some concerns about its provisions.

The bill would prohibit landlords from renting a unit known to be infested by bed bugs. However, if the landlord gets an inspection from a licensed inspector, prior to leasing the unit, with a written report stating no bed bug evidence was found, then the landlord wont be liable if a problem is discovered later.

If the landlord does not get an inspection before renting the unit, and then a tenant complains bed bugs are present within 60 days of renting the unit, the landlord must hire someone to treat within five days of this complaint. All neighboring units must also be inspected.

Landlords must also provide educational materials about bed bugs to new tenants.

The bill also requires tenants to refrain from knowingly introducing bed bugs to the unit, stating: tenants shall not knowingly or recklessly introduce onto the premises any person or thing infested with bedbugs.

Tenants must notify landlords in writing within five days of suspecting they may have bed bugs.

If the landlord got an inspection before the tenant moved in, or if more than sixty days have passed since the tenant moved in, the tenant must pay all costs of bed bug treatment hiring a firm within seven days.

This tenant would also need to cover any fees charged by the licensee [PCO] and any damages associated with the presence and elimination of bedbugs from the premises and any attached units and spaces.

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Troy Pest Control | Bed Bug Identification, Prevention And Control

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Bed Bug Identification Tips From Rose Exterminators In Troy MI

What are bed bugs? If youve never seen them before, they are small brown parasitic insects, adults approximately the size and shape of an apple seed. They can be a real problem for home and business owners in Troy when they infest a property. These are nocturnal pests and usually only come out at night to feed; during the daytime they hide in areas where they think they wont be found. If you suspect you have a bed bug problem inside your home or in your business, your best bet is to schedule a bed bug inspection with one of Rose Pest Solutions qualified technicians. We can help determine if there actually is a bed bug problem and then we will devise a plan to help you get rid of these annoying pests. Rose Pest Solutions has been in business since 1860 and our longstanding tradition of providing effective residential and commercial pest control solutions in Michigan have helped us make a good name for ourselves as well as keep our customers pest free. Contact Rose today for more information on our Troy bed bug control or for any other pest control concerns you may have.

Think you might have bed bugs, but youre not quite sure? We get a lot of phone calls from people that suspect they may have bed bugs. These pests can be quite elusive, but there are a few very specific signs that point to a bed bug infestation. Signs of bed bugs can include:

Dark brown or dark red spots on bed linens or upholstered furniture. These spots are bed bug fecal matter, although they look like spots of blood.

Because bed bugs shed their exoskeletons as they grow, you may find shed bed bug skins in areas of high activity.

Little red welts can be seen on your skin upon waking if youve got bed bugs feeding on you during the nighttime hours.

Bed bug eggs may be seen, but they are very small (smaller than a grain of rice!) and white or semi-transparent, often blending in with their surroundings.

In heavily infested areas, a musty smell may be present.

If you have any of these signs of bed bugs, you could very easily have a bed bug problem in your property; contact the Troy exterminators at Rose today and we will help put your mind at ease about bed bugs.

If you have yet to find signs of bed bugs inside your home or business, thats great news! But in order to keep your property free from bed bugs, its good to be aware of ways to prevent picking these insects up. Because bed bugs are excellent hitchhikers, you could be bringing these insects into your property unknowingly, so its a good idea to follow these bed bug prevention tips to keep your property bed bug free.

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Security Bed Bug Control

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To completely eliminate a bed bug infestation from a dwelling it is necessary to treat more than just the room where someone is getting bitten by bed bugs at night. Most of the bedbugs will be in the room close to the person getting bitten, but they can travel quite quickly across floors, walls and ceilings (check-out the video link below). They get spread around the home when we move items such as; clothing or any other item that might have been kept in an area with a bed bug infestation. Thus, bed bugs are also commonly found in the laundry room and the living room. If bed bugs in the living room find someone sleeping on the couch, that room also will quickly become infested. Thus, the best way to totally eliminate a bed bug infestation is to thoroughly treat the problem room along with all surrounding areas.Click our bed bug treatment page for more bedbug treatment information.Call us at 1-800-362-2687 anytime between 8:00AM and 8:00PM for any questions or pricing information. Bed Bug Bites Video

Adult bed bugs are reddish-brown to all brownish in color. They are oval-shaped, flattened, and about 1/5 inch to 3/16 inch long. Their flat shape enables them to easily hide in small cracks and crevices. The body becomes more swollen, elongated, and dark red after getting a blood meal. Bed bugs have a beaklike piercing-sucking mouthpart system. Newly hatched nymphs are nearly colorless, becoming brownish as they mature. Nymphs have a similar appearance as the adults, eggs are white and around 1/32 inch long. Note: Bed bugs resemble a couple of other closely related insects, such as bat bugs. In Ohio, bat bugs are more common than bed bugs, but in Massachusetts, bed bugs are far more common. Bat bugs prefer bats, but if the preferred host animals are removed and the bat bugs are left untreated, they will seek out a human host. If you visit or live in a building with a bat infestation, this could be a possible source of bites.

Bedbug Life Cycle Eggs adhere to surfaces. Eggs hatch in 6 to 17 days, and the nymphs will immediately begin to feed. They require a blood meal in order to molt and grow. Bed bugs reach maturity after around five molts. Development from (egg to adult) is affected by temperature and takes about 21 days at 86 F to 110 days at 66 F. Bed bugs can go without feeding for 80 to 170 days; older stages can survive longer without feeding than younger ones. Adults have been known to have survived without food for as long as 540 days. A bed bug can consume six times its weight in blood and the feeding process can take 3 to 10 minutes. Adults normally live about 10-15 months and there can be 3 to 4 generations of bed bugs per year.

Bed bugs are fast moving insects. They feed mostly at night when their host is asleep. They use their sharp beak to pierce the skin of a host. Then, they inject a salivary fluid containing an anticoagulant that helps them obtain blood. Nymphs may become engorged with blood within three minutes. A full-grown adult bed bug usually feeds for ten to fifteen minutes. After becoming elongated after a blood meal, they then crawl away to a hiding place to digest the meal. Their sole source of food is the blood meal they take at night, either from humans or bats during the day. Bed bugs hide during the day. They are usually hidden in dark, protected sites. They seem to prefer fabric, wood, and paper surfaces. They are usually in close proximity to the host, although they can quickly travel far distances. Bed bugs initially can be found about in tufts, seams, and folds of the mattresses, later spreading to crevices in the bed frame and in the box-spring. In heavier infestations, they will occupy hiding places farther from the bed. They may hide in window or doorframes, floor cracks, baseboards, furniture, electrical boxes, and under the tack board of wall-to-wall carpeting. Bed bugs also often crawl upward to hide in pictures, wall hangings, loosened wallpaper, cracks in plaster, drapery pleats, and ceiling moldings.

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bed bugs – Baltimore Forum – TripAdvisor – Reviews of Hotels …

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Just curious --- having been a victim of bedbugs in Baltimore two years ago --- I'm wondering (redsox53) if there is a specific reason why you are asking?

I think jwhiteree gave really good advice. In my case, it was at a BWI hotel in 10/08 (where I'd stayed several times before) and it ruined my week-long vacation. The hotel was moving me all over the place (room-to-room) and saying things like....*oh, that's just fuzz.* Not when I was getting bitten, it wasn't. I proved it to them with a roll of scotch tape --- taping the larva to a pillow case. I never saw an adult bedbug. They comp'd me all my meals for a week, without ever admitting they had a problem. They said nobody else had complained. I would have left the hotel completely but paid via Hotwire and couldn't afford a different hotel. Plus there was a bedbug problem in a local college then so I figured (if I left) I might just get stuck in another hotel with the same problem.

The good news is --- they were in the process of a complete renovation already so they also threw away all their mattresses, lines, bed coverings, towels, etc. The WHOLE hotel. Plus, as part of the renovation, they replaced their flooring.

Knowing they were renovating and they *appeared* to be doing something about it, I agreed to stay there again in 04/09. When I walked in, everyone recognized me from 6 months earlier. That blows my mind as I could not POSSIBLY have been the only person to complain but the stink I made, with visits to the desk (thus it was embarrassing to them while other guests were there), was evidently memorable.

Bottom-line. There were ZERO problems the next time. No bedbugs and the entire staff was very nice to me. They didn't admit the problem the previous visit but they too seemed relieved to be rid of it. It was the Holiday Inn BWI, BTW, and the issue had been solved last year.

I realize there is a problem in certain areas but as some indicate, there are things you can do to prevent the spread. I always avoid putting luggage on the bed but I like jwhite's suggestion of putting it in the bathtub (or at least the bathroom). I've stayed in 3 different hotels in the area since and no problem.

Are you concerned about reports in the area (?) or did someone tell you something about that specific hotel? You say you called the hotel but did you also e-mail them (for a record) and tell them why you are concerned?

Good luck. It's not fun so, like you, I tend to be very diligent on this issue in that area. Actually, any area lately which tends to be humid.

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Bed Bug Report for Embassy Suites Hotel Washington, DC …

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Anonymous on 04/04/2013

We stayed on the 3rd floor and this morning my wife had some itchy red bumps on her arms. We looked around on the mattress and noticed some blood smears on the sheet near the head of the bed. We had to leave quickly to make our flight but plan on filing a complaint with the hotel when we get home.

family of five on 08/19/2012

I and my family stayed at Embassy Suites, Downtown DC. on June 5,6 and 7, 2012. One son and I noticed bites on our legs the last morning as we were leaving. We joked about bedbugs and dismissed it thinking they may be mosquito bites. We did not know all the precautions we were supposed to take to prevent them from entering our home. About three weeks later I saw two bugs next to my son's bed, but, since they were under an open window, I thought they came in from outside. A couple of weeks later,

two sons had bites and we looked it up on line and investigated further in our bedrooms. The exterminators came and did their work, and found them to be in all bedrooms as well as the living room. They said we could have had up to 100 hatchings since mid-June. What a mess! I called the hotel after the house was treated. The manager on duty took a report and said she would forward it to the General Manager and the Chief Engineer. I am waiting to hear back by Aug. 24. She told me they had not had any other reports in a couple months. (that is when we were there) I wish I knew about bedbugs BEFORE our stay. We will be more careful next time. We are hoping for some compensation since they clearly know about the problem.

Amy on 01/31/2012

Checked in on Monday, January 23, 2011 and immediately discovered bed bugs in my room covering the bed. I called the front desk and first was told that I must be wrong since the hotel does not have any problems with bed bugs. After I killed the second bug and saw blood again from the insect. I called the front desk and insisted that I get a room change. They wanted to move me a couple of rooms down the way but I again insisted that I get another floor and they agreed. They wouldn't admit to

anything until the next day when their pest control did find bed bugs. They washed or dry cleaned my clothes. They did try to assist and accomodate me once they identified the problem. They did say the bed bugs probably came from the room next to mine which was occupied.

Ankle bites galore on 09/14/2011

Just got back from an overnight stay Sept 12,2011. Ankles now covered with bites. Was never without socks except when in the room and in bed. Have stayed here before but not again.

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