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Originally Posted by rcat
UPDATE: none found!
They inspected and found nothing - which is what I told them (I know full well the signs). But they also did a precautionary treatment and spray. They will be back in two weeks to do another.
Thank goodness. Come and do all the preventative measures you want to - please. I just don't want to go through this again.
Incidentally if I were to have them I don't feel that moving is an option. I would only dispurse them and take them with me. They also say moving only lengthens the time you have them as, with not 'bait' to lure them out they go dormant and the treatments don't work as well. Yes it is horrible the idea of sticking around but it is the responsible thing to do.
Anyway. No signs. Whew!
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rcat: Congrats, and I just want to say I can understand how this would make you feel and it isn't a laughing matter. I have to move soon because my apartment is being renovated and they are raising the rent over $200. I started obsessing about how I will know if a new apartment has bedbugs and I lost half a night's sleep. I went online and certain places have been "called out" for having bed bugs, including what used to be my favorite hotel
. In the apartment before this I battled mice. They nested in my couch and I had to get rid of it.
I was catching them with a "catch and release" thingie and letting them go outside...a lot of them were baby mice. And I had a cat at the time! Go figure! When I got to this apartment I settled down and have loved living here. If I move to an apartment and it has bedbugs I think I may go insane! In the past I have lived in apartments with cockroaches (east coast of US, big city)
and fleas in the apartment (CA) when I moved in.
A big rental house I lived in had silverfish, which is a dreadful insect.
And then the townhouse with the mice.
I don't think I can deal with bedbugs. Any tips as to how I might be able to tell before moving in somewhere???