Submitted by "anonymous" on 08/27/2008

Anyone with experience taking the issue of bed bugs to the Landlord Tenant Board please contact renep@live.ca asap. We have a hearing scheduled regarding a nearby building soon!

Submitted by "bugged" on 08/21/2008

This is just an update to the ongoing problem, I have already posted earlier. Just thought I'd mention the pest guys are coming to spray our unit today (they did so two weeks ago, too, and I hadn't been bitten for a good while). I got up, got dressed, and went back to the bedroom where my husband was waking up, and there, right on the bed, was a bedbug crawling along! I caught it with sticky tape and added it to my other 'souveniers'. It wasn't enormous, but not teeny either( a juvenile?) And sure enough, the little varmint got me, there is now a nice big red swelling on my hand.

What I have learned about bedbugs thanks to 77 Huntley is this:
- spraying one unit at a time won't fix the problem. They can, and will, still crawl into your unit from other units. Your neighbours' problem is your problem, too.
- decluttering, washing and bagging everything, isolating your bed etc. is good, but you have to be VIGILANT about ANYTHING that was on the floor getting on the bed - books, telephone, even street clothes if you were sitting on the floor. Don't let your bedding touch the floor, either, they'll just shimmy up.

Thank god we're leaving end of next month. We will have to work triple hard to make sure we don't take any with us to the next place, because while spraying makes them go away for a while, if they are anywhere else around, they WILL come back.

Submitted by "LINDSAY" on 08/15/2008

77 Huntley has an ongoing bed bug problem which they are not willing to address
To all people interested, the form needed to fill out is available through the Landlord Tenant Board. It is the T6 maitenance form and the T2 Tenants RIght form. The filing fee is $45. The office is located 1 block east of Yonge, on St.Clair. If anyone is interested in joining our suit/being a witness/starting your own or just any general questions about this building please email:
lindsaygoulding@hotmail.com

We are seeking compenation for all the furniture thrown in the garbage (T6) and for the interference of our reasonable enjoyment within the unit (T2)

I look forward to hearing from you.

Submitted by "77 huntley is terrible" on 08/13/2008

last fall - I didnt sleep for about 3 weeks due to bedbugs - bought a tent with fine mesh to finally get a full nights sleep - 1yr later - I still sleep in this tent - for piece of mind - this place is a hole - stay away

Submitted by "don\'t let the bed bugs bite" on 08/13/2008

DEAR SUNNY

NO PROBLEM, just doing my part in saving innocent people the stress i gotta deal with

Submitted by "Sunny" on 08/13/2008

I applied to this building yesterday. I couldn't believe the great price and location. Now I know the catch.
There is no way I'm letting myself or my cat be a treat for bedbugs. Thank you for the information.

Submitted by "don\'t let the bed bugs bite" on 08/11/2008

If you don't mind having to throw out all your furniture, clothing and possessions, paying high rent for BED BUG INFESTED APARTMENTS then rent here because this is what you're gonna get.

Submitted by "Freaked" on 08/10/2008

I went to see an apartment in this building, and at the time I never even thought about bedbugs. I asked about cockroaches while I was looking at the apartment...and the man showing me the apartment said "every building in Toronto has cockroaches and bedbugs."

As soon as I heard that, I knew I couldn't live in that building! I can't even go into that mall that's a part of the ground floor!

Submitted by "sick of bed bugs at 77 huntley street" on 08/10/2008

I have been bitten by bed bugs continuously in the past month. I went to the office and surprise they don't care. I am so upset I rented here and it's not cheap either. The office is so terrible here. There has been notices posted in the building about how terrible it is here but the management does nothing at all. This building is run by a bunch of idiots. Bed bugs are dirty and disgusting. I can't sleep at night because I always think there is bugs crawling on me or in my bed. I can't have people over because I am embarassed and I don't want them to take the bugs home. I wish I could get my money back for every month of rent I paid here.

Submitted by "miserable tenant" on 08/10/2008

free bedbugs! free bedbugs! free bedbugs! lotsa money in rent but FREE BEDBUGS! APPLY NOW!
416-964-8265

Submitted by "bugged" on 08/09/2008

I came home from hospital last june, got bitten on the legs and assumed it was a mosquito. After discovering a small brown beetle on a t-shirt, I found on-line it had been a bedbug and first thought they had come home with me from the hospital - but I was never bitten in the hospital! It was the building that was the problem. We put down diatomaceous earth on the bed, sealed it in vinyl and put more earth down on the floor and wainscotting near the bed. There were no more problems until feb - apparently the landlord sprayed the unit next door but didn't tell us! More earth was put down, but the attacks continued sporadically until the bed was moved into the centre of the room. The legs of the bed are sitting in glass jars sprinkled with diatomaceous earth and also have sticky tape on them. Items we didn't need to keep were thrown out and items we did have been put into sealed bins sealed with plastic bags and tape for 18 months' storage. Clothes and bedding are all washed/dried on hot and kept in clean, clear garbage bags. The PCO sprayed yesterday but we are having them come back in two weeks anyway. Needless to say, we are moving out soon, and we told other tenants as best we could, but don't count on this building management being of much help. One couple we told approached the management office, who denied outright there was any problem.

Submitted by "CHRISTINA" on 08/01/2008

never in my LIFE have I ever heard of so many people having bed bugs. The management doesn't care and their attitude's totally suck. you might as well cut your losses, throw everything in the garbage and move on cuz THEY DONT CARE. AND they try to act like it's your fault asking if "did you go on vacation or stay in any hotels?" or "there's been no roaches or bed bugs in the apartment before you rented it"
NICE TRY DONT FALL FOR IT, this building has been having problems for YEARS, they're just to cheap to deal with it. run run run

Submitted by "77 huntley sucks" on 07/17/2008

bed bugs, roaches, crackheads OH MY. This has to be the WORST BUILDING IN TORONTO EVER. I seriously advise NO ONE to move into this building unless you like bugs, custy\'s and hookers. AND also, it\'s nice to know we pay 1000$ rent for a 1bdrm and the person down the hall from you in the EXACT SAME APARTMENT pays $130 because this building needed to take on welfare receipients to boost their vacancy

Submitted by "Anonymous" on 02/17/2008

In Dec I would wake up with these bites all over my arms and legs that would swell to the size of a loonie within 48 hours. I reported this to Management and they confirmed this building was definitely having issues with these pests. They offered to spray but required we box and bag everything in our unit. Since they would require many hours to do (and time I didn\'t have), I decided to take care of the problem myself. So I cleaned cleaned and CLEANED everything with hot water in the laundry, bought flea spray at the pet store and vacuumed the baseboards and floors everyday!!!! I finally got rid of this problem a month later but what an inconvenient and frustrating experience! This building is so filthy dirty!!!

Submitted by "bugged in TO" on 08/18/2007

Husband started having bites, saw first bedbug a few days later.

Discovered from other tenants that building was infested - many other units affected. Units were being seen by PCO, building management was aware but posted no notices, did not inform tenants, and only sprayed infested units - which caused them to spread.

People throwing out furniture, writing "Bedbugs on this floor / in this building" in the elevators and on mirrors - usually around the first of the month when new people were moving in.

Neighbours leaving there doors wide open were helping to spread bugs. Large number of undesirables - crack addicts and dealers - living in building.

We managed to eradicate them in our unit. Being vigilent, we have had no reinfestation.