Bed bugs
I live in a building with three apartments. I recently found bed bugs in mine arising from a sofa purchased from Craigslist. The exterminator found remnants of dead ones in the sofa. I’d like to know who is responsible for the extermination of the bed bug infestation — me or the landlord. According to my…
I live in a building with three apartments. I recently found bed bugs in mine arising from a sofa purchased from Craigslist. The exterminator found remnants of dead ones in the sofa. I’d like to know who is responsible for the extermination of the bed bug infestation — me or the landlord. According to my lease my apartment is suppose to be inhabitable and free of pests. Advise and please no snide comments.
Since you are using a sofa from Craigslits From which you found the bugs, I don’t think your landlord is responsible for it. You should have got an infested sofa.
Because she’s a lawyer according to her bio 12:58
Look at her other posts on other issues as well
BTW where do you live??? which block?
Dave,
12.58 here. Based on your prior posts as well as your moniker, it seems that you and I are neighbors, and that we live pretty close to each other. So neighbor, enlighten me. How’s it “clear” that this post is bogus?
While I understand that Mina’s posting record is fishy, those of you who think an atty would do legal research *here* need to get over yourselves!
Actually the landlord of a three unit building is exempt from responsibility for extermination.
12:58 thanks for the exciting post…brooklynfirealarm is informative…which is what people need here unless it becomes clear that they are bogus which Ms Mina Simon, Esq. certainly is…you take yourself way too seriously
At this time last year when we were renting in Carroll Gardens we had a horrible bedbug experience. We have no idea how they were brought into the apartment (no used furniture). I notified the landlord and he gave me the name or the regular exterminator he used. We had to empty all closets and launder EVERYTHING and put it in garbage bags. The exterminator came for an initial visit and then one or two follow ups at an expense to me of close to $600 for a tiny 1BR plus den apt. We continued to live out of garbage bags and saw occasional bedbugs for another month until fortunately we were moving anyway. It was a nightmare! As for who is responsible for paying the exterminator, both the exterminator and the city of ny (311) advised me that the landlord should be responsible. I paid and then the landlord screwed us anyway on the security deposit and I would venture to say did not mention bedbugs to the next tenant.
maybe Mina and Ysabelle are roomies. Or even more likely, the same person. Think about it, one is a laywer looking for legal advice and the other is an interior designer that dispenses dubious information while looking for european cabinet makers. Curious this is.
Perhaps, daveinbedstuy, if you weren’t so continually overexcited (oh boy!!!) you’d notice fire alarm guy’s posts tend to be obvious and dull.