Submitted by "Anonymous" on 09/13/2008

Adding on to my first submission, the apartment manager has paid for the fumigation. I found him much more accomadting this time around. The pest control company is coming back in two weeks for their follow up visit, to get any recently hatched bugs as pesticides apparently can't hurt the eggs. No sign of any as of yet, but that is likely because my apartment is stll dripping with poison.

Submitted by "Anonymous" on 09/07/2008

I currently live in apartment 1202 of the Knightsbridge Apartments at 1933 Robson Street Vancouver, BC.

I have lived here since July of 2007. In late March of 2008 I discovered bedbugs coming out of my bed’s headboard. This bed was purchased new from IKEA. I informed the apartment manager immediately. He advised to throw the bed out and to label it “Do Not Take”. He asked me not to mention bedbugs in the sign. He stated he had dealt with this before and that he had aerosol poison in his office for me to use. I requested a professional pest control company be called in to treat the entire apartment. He informed me that this would be at my expense because the infestation was, in his opinion, my fault. Even though it would be at my expense, I contacted Canadian Pest Control. The pest control company recommended that the apartments above, below, and beside be treated as well. They asked me to get permission from my landlord to enter these apartments. He was against it. He stated that he did not even want to mention the word bedbugs to other tenants. When I pointed out that they were at risk of infestation, he would not bend.

I threw out the bed, the area rug, and a small bookcase from my bedroom. I washed all of my bedding, laundry, and linens. I thoroughly vacuumed the entire apartment. The next day, as promised, the apartment manager delivered a can of commercial insecticide. I used the entire can.

Over the next several weeks I could not find any bugs, I thought I was clear. With no bed I was sleeping on my couch in the living room. In late August of 2008 I started noticing bites again. I disposed of my couch and chair from the living room after finding bugs in both, and repeated the cleaning process as before. Over the past several weeks I have studied up on bedbugs on the Internet and by contacting various pest control companies. I have booked an appointment with Canadian Pest Control to come in and fumigate my apartment in an effort to save my remaining furniture.

I have had this furniture for several years and have never had an issue with any of it in the past. Prior to the Knightsbridge apartments I had a roommate. A year later he has no infestation, our old apartment was clean. I know these bugs are coming from this building and the fumigation, that I am paying for, is only a temporary solution to this problem.