Submitted by "Anonymous" on 05/15/2008

Late April, 2008. After living in this building for seven years without incident, I found bedbugs. (Note that I have a futon mattress resting on a wooden frame. If you're considering buying a futon, go with a metal frame only, as bedbugs have trouble climbing smooth surfaces like metal or plastic.) It took more than a week after giving my super the work order requesting the apt. be fumigated for it to happen, during which time I'm sure the problem got worse (I wasn't staying there). Just before spraying, I threw out a lot of my stuff, and put all my clothes in garbage bags stacked in the tub. Yesterday (May 15th), I saw an adult bug on the wall of my tub while pulling clothes out to do laundry (which I then packed up in large plastic containers for protection). I hope the sighting was isolated, but this weekend I will be putting in another request for re-spraying ASAP just in case. Since I'm not sleeping there, I don't know how bad the problem still is - I just hope it hasn't spread to other units. My super told me that she asked the people in apts. surrounding mine & no one has had a problem, but I don't know. The building next to mine is infested & I have seen people garbage picking from that building's thrown out furniture, so maybe that's how it got into my building. (Don't garbage pick or buy used (wooden) furniture!) I am going to have to throw out all my furniture, books & papers and I will be putting all my remaining (sentimental) stuff in storage - all in sealed plastic containers - for two years, just to be safe. I'm moving into my boyfriend's but paranoid to sleep in his bed & worried that I've brought the problem here with me, even though I've been careful!