Today, after being nearly homeless and couch-hopping for the last few months, I finally signed a 1-year lease. When I got home, I was surprised to see a picture of my new complex on the front page of the newspaper. It turns out that they are fighting a serious bedbug infestation. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my girlfriend and I moved back in after over a month of couch hopping and $2,000 of heat and chemical treatments for a chronic bedbug issue. I just found bedbugs on my legs. We've used all our favors and have nowhere to go. FML
Today, after being moved to three different employer-provided apartments because they all had mold and electrical problems, I requested a bigger bed. The bed they delivered had bedbugs. FML
Today, my pregnant girlfriend and I moved into our first home together, signing a 1-year lease. Less than 12 hours later, we've discovered that the place is infested with cockroaches and we have a mouse. The landlord won't let us out of the contract. FML
Today, my boyfriend finally moved in with me, after being long distance for months. Our apartment just became infested with mice. FML
Today, I just moved into my second apartment after the first one was infested with fruit flies, which were coming out of cracks in the floor. We discovered they had tried to cover this fact up so we'd move in. Guess what this new one has? Bed bugs. I asked if there was a history of bug problems and they said no. Lies. FML
Today, I woke up to something crawling on my leg. Thinking it might be a spider, I jumped out frantically to check. The good news: it's not a spider. The bad news: it's a bedbug. My apartment was just treated for them. FML
Today, I’d been dying to escape my dreary hometown, but had panic attacks at the thought of being on my own, but at last, I'd found a place I could afford. Turns out, the guy I was going to rent from was just arrested for murdering his last tenant. FML
Today, I discovered I have bed bugs. I have nowhere else to sleep and I won't be able to afford a new mattress for at least a year. I'd better get used to these giant welts. FML
Today, I signed the lease on my first apartment alone with my boyfriend. We've lived here a month before we got to sign. Today is also the day my neighbors decided to show how they're night owls: all I hear is banging on the walls and them loudly talking and yelling. This will be a long year. FML
Today, I signed the lease for a flat that a mate and I decided to move into. About five minutes after leaving the renting agency, I received a text from my mate saying he couldn't move in with me after all. I am now the happy tenant of a large inner city flat that I can't afford. FML
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warturtle 14
Sleep tight.
MisterMichael 9
...Don't let the bed bugs bite
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my_name_is_earl 9
YAY!! Roommates!!
perdix 31
#12, yes, but they are a bunch of free-loading parasites that don't pay rent. Now, the OP gets to see what that's like from the other side :)
TheDrifter 24
Tough crowd this morning. I had both couch dwellers and bedbugs in my old apartment and the bedbugs are easier to get rid of.
MrsDarcy_fml 3
And so have all of your friends.
AHappyGoth 14
Ugh, bedbugs. Nasty little bloodsuckers. Could be worse; there could be a spider infestation. . .
LJN 16
Spiders are easier to kill. Bedbugs can cost up to thousands of dollars and you don't even know for sure if you've gotten rid of them as they can hide for 18 months without a meal. With a spider you can bug-bomb the house and get them all in one (or two) shot(s). Bed bugs, not so much. @20: If anything of his is moved in to the new place, it's all ready too late. They're probably all ready in his new apartment if it's so serious it made the front page so he'll be infested as well. It doesn't take much to get them and any crack you can fit a credit card through, they can go through. @10: Bedbugs can come from a five star hotel that caters to rich, posh people. They don't care if you're poor or rich. If they like your blood/breath, they will come after you.
AHappyGoth 14
#22, I'm quite aware of how a bedbug infestation works and their behavior; I lived in a heavily infested house as a kid. Not fun. Thanks for the lesson though. But my lame joke was that spiders are just ******* creepy.
Michael903 18
You can't fix the problem for the whole apartment complex but with preparation and care you can keep them out of your place.
bjdog98 9
Don't you do home inspection? Dumbass.
jeepers_1 21
He stated that he was "nearly homeless" a home inspection is kind of expensive, not to mention there is no guarantee that they would find them because they are so small
akiahara 14
You can't see bedbugs at a glance, and taking a look at an apartment isn't like the inspection you'd do when purchasing a house.
Frankenstein611 10
Beggars can't be choosers
seniorchang 16
A new apartment AND bed buddies with no strings attached? Lucky bastard.
AshaaFerreira 22
Well technically he is attached for one year
jazalea8 16
I think you can get out of the lease for not giving correct information. Since you can say you asked if there were any known problems (such as termites, ect.) and they told you no, they made you unable to make an accurate decision on your place to live. Basically, they lied to you and made you comfortable about their property when they knew these problems existed. I'm sure you might be able to get out of the lease, and if they do not, I hate to say it, threaten to sue. They have to tell you that information if you ask.
Zebediabolical 45
You're assuming that OP asked. You're also assuming that the complex manager was aware of the problem and actively hiding it. There's sometimes a lag time between the signing of a lease and the occupant moving in, and it could certainly have been during that period that the problem came to light and was reported. This is why you never sign a lease before you are about to take possession.
skyeyez9 25
We rented a home and soon afterwards, found out it was infested with literally millions of brown recluse spiders. The attic looked like it had a "moving carpet" it was a ******* nightmare. I shut the crawlspace door and put masking tape around the edges to keep them from crawling thru while we repacked our stuff. The spiders tried crawling out that door and got stuck in the tape....there was about 60 of them no there, stuck and still wiggling.
akiahara 14
Thanks for fueling my new nightmares.
caysters 12
Id avoid buying any furniture anytime soon...