Landlords, Insects, Capitalism and Scary: Social parasites

Social parasites

By wasp infestation - 03/10/2016 04:54 - United States - Aurora

Today, the owner of the house I'm renting said he doesn't want to pay $4000 to fumigate the home, and that he'll take care of the issue himself. I have killed 30 angry wasps in the last hour. There are thousands living in the walls, but I think their favorite place is my bathroom and my bed. FML

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By UniverseHatesMe - 26/05/2016 10:04 - United States - Cuyahoga Falls

Today, my neighbor kindly set off a bed bug fogger rather than getting an exterminator, which we'd even offered to help him pay for. We have baseboard heating in our condo building. Guess where the parasites crawled to now. FML

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By OhWait - 23/10/2015 00:18 - United States - Schenectady

Today, after six weeks of dealing with various exterminators, my roommate and I were about to toast to what we were told was a wasp-free room. That's when we noticed several much smaller wasps flying around. Not only is our wasp problem not solved, but our room is a wasp breeding ground. FML

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By BearGrillz - 17/08/2009 23:40 - United States

Today, there were some wasps getting in my bedroom from a hole in the frame of my window. I went outside with some spray and took out their entrance. What I didnt know is that when you spray wasps, they go the other direction. I now have 60+ wasps flying around my bedroom. FML

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Collect the set

By Anonymous - 20/04/2022 12:00

Today, some spider must have had babies somewhere in the walls, because every five minutes I seem to find yet another spider on my ceiling, in my cupboards, under the furniture, everywhere. I’m so fed up of smashing them, I’m thinking of getting the house fumigated. FML

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By Anonymous - 26/06/2013 17:51 - United States - State College

Today, I was going to set up my air conditioner in the window. As I opened up the window, I must have disturbed a wasp nest, because a dozen wasps flew in and several of them stung me. The rest are now somewhere in my house with my terrified girlfriend. FML

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By anonymous - 29/06/2016 03:11 - United States - Charlton

Today, for the third day in a row, I have been volunteered to kill and dispose of the bugs entering my apartment. I live with two "manly" men who can't use a flyswatter. FML

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Buggin' out

By Anonymous - 01/09/2023 14:00

Today, my husband warned me we had a yellowjacket swarm move into our basement. He wasn't kidding. I'm phobic after I was swarmed as a kid, I'm watching our bug zapper literally smoke with how many it's killing, and my can of wasp spray seems woefully insufficient. They can have the house! FML

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Thanks, I hate it

By Anonymous - 26/05/2009 09:18 - Greece

Today, I hired an exterminator to get the roaches out of the house I'm renting. I came back from work and went to my bathroom, noticing that he used the plunger to unclog the toilet after he took a dump. After $150, there was shit all over my floor and plunger, and roaches still in my kitchen. FML

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Bee Movie 2: Electric Boogaloo

By Anonymous - 22/08/2020 23:02 - United States - Santa Ana

Today, I woke up to the inside of my house covered in bees. Hundreds of them. I have been complaining about a bee problem to the HOA for two weeks, and their response has been, “The hive was taken care of." Well, a few hundred bees inside and a few thousand on my outside wall beg to disagree. FML

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By Anonim23 - 15/08/2019 20:00

Today, the spiders in my house are so big that they catch wasps in their webs. FML

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TheHcwalker 20

Monday 3 October 2016 13:15

Maybe sit down with all the wasps and find the source of their anger, maybe their parents weren't there for them, maybe they were bullied in wasp school, a conversation is all you need so nobody else has to get hurt.

TXfmylifer 10

Monday 3 October 2016 12:06

Does your contract cover pest control, or is there a state requirement for landlords to provide it for certain murderous pests? If so you might have a case to bring it up or allow you to break your lease and move somewhere else.

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Nickimariek 20

Monday 3 October 2016 17:51

I'd be moving out. Especially after the movie I saw as a kid about killer bees and this family being trapped in their house, trying to find a way out alive......

Dranwyn 5

Monday 3 October 2016 18:27

I'm pretty sure that by law, the landlord has to take care of the problem. Pest clauses in leases usually only apply to stuff like fleas, ants, and roaches. In the way that those tend to be the fault of the tenant rather than the landlord. This is something that would make it legal to break your lease and move elsewhere.

commandokid 13

Monday 3 October 2016 19:52

Usually they have to take care of that kind of stuff by law

shitstorm28 11

Monday 3 October 2016 20:06

pretty sure landlords have a legal obligation to deal with that shit.

intreker05 5

Monday 3 October 2016 20:18

Definitely check out your tenant rights for your area. Most places require that the landlord keep the location livable, which would include things like pest control, fixing electrical and plumbing issues, broken windows, etc. If this is the case, notify your landlord that you are aware of your rights and you'll expect the issue to be solved within 72 hours and if not, you'll be contacting a pest control company and taking the cost out of your rent payments. Then, I'd look for another place to live anyway because he won't be a happy camper.

anaheimangels40 11

Monday 3 October 2016 21:29

Know your rights, landlord has No choice to fumigate.

worthypegram1 13

Monday 3 October 2016 22:07

If it's a safety issue (which I would consider that a safety issue) then they should legally have to fix it and pay for you to be somewhere else while they do. I would threaten to report them because that is not okay

stressedartist 14

Monday 3 October 2016 22:24

Great. The only two places where you can be alone.

kutkutkut 8

Monday 3 October 2016 22:53

you really should not care , its the owners responsibility, sue him elsewise.

jekyllf 13

Monday 3 October 2016 23:31

In a lot of places, you can put your rent money into escrow, basically paying your rent into an account your landlord can't touch unless he takes the actions necessary to get the property up to code. Not sure about how one goes about setting up such a thing though.