death to landlords I’m so disgusted and defeated
Yeah I have used that before for for ants and it works well
What’s really shitty is the place looked really nice but looks like they updated the floors and slapped some “new” roach infested appliances in there to give it the veneer of nice and hiding the infestation
Is it multi-unit? Because if you share walls with your neighbors you're going to need to coordinate the extermination.
Just wanna jump on the praise train of DE and advion gel bait. I'm fighting the same battle right now but I've won it once before with that combo and I'll win it again (or my lease is up next month idgaf).
Not defense lawyers as there's nothing to recover. But Plaintiff's lawyers often work on contingency.
But YSK that pertains to the lawyers fees. Those are different than the attorney's costs, which can include filing fees, travel, transcripts, copies, etc. The costs are almost always charged to the client.
Bengal Gold roach spray is really good. It lasts for 6 months and stops them from breeding. It will flush them out of their hiding spots too.
That is awful. My sympathies. I had a landlord situation last week where the toilet on the floor upstairs was leaking into our bathroom ceiling and the landlord was really dragging his feet about doing anything about it. I had an ammonia-smelling bucket under the leak and the smell was making me nuts enough. Once he came in and actually fixed it, it only took him about an hour. These fucking guys. Hope the exterminator can help you.
Diatomaceous earth around the base of anything you don't want them crawling on. Borax on the carpet. Flypaper traps laid on the floor of closets etc.
Beyond that, there are some decent roach specific products out there that may help.
I had the exact same issue, accidentally dropped a lil baggie I filled with them in the apartment management office.
Yeah they’re sending an exterminator later this week but I’m literally afraid to use the kitchen, so ever since I moved in I’ve been eating cold sandwiches on the porch and $1 burgers from mcds in my car lest I drop a crumb somewhere inside and they swarm
They seem to be living in the oven
I bought bait and traps to use until the exterminator gets here
Between this and my landlord stealing my deposit for “yard work” and leaving me destitute I’m depressed
Yikes that sounds really bad if the colony is in the house. But don't worry, roach extermination can be really effective. Sounds like the landlord is a scumbag, but as long as the exterminator is legit and not like, the landlord's cousin, you should expect things to get temporarily better. Make sure the exterminator is doing long-term remediation and not just a kill job (e.g. traps around the property). You'll also want to keep traps of your own around to poison any roaches that try to return, get a trashcan with a lid on it, and keep your kitchen and dining areas clean, just to make sure the situation doesn't get out of hand again. Good luck with the landlord :-\
this is like the majority of apt buildings older than a couple decades in the US. we have awful housing stock. i'm sorry comrade
And it’s not getting any better. The housing crisis is part artificial and part organic. Obviously we’re still feeling aftershocks from 2008, but we’re also dealing with a massive bloc of aging people who aren’t ready for the retirement home because, whoopsie, it feels like everything was designed around people dropping dead at 67-70 and now longevity and quality of life is way up (which is good!) The only problem is that you need to have protocols and contingencies in place to deal with a population that isn’t dying on time (so to speak). People living longer means more housing, more affordable housing, universal healthcare, more and better public transit so that travel isn’t based on a personal vehicle, along with other policies that could be controversial but necessary in a democracy (such as an age limit on voting or holding public office, or, lowering the age to vote or hold office).
ayyyyy everybody who lives in a shithole sound off. My shithole has so many problems and that would be fine, I can fix shit myself. BUT I live in a POA and these motherfuckers pay somebody else to fix their shit so they think I should have everything done zip-zap.
So I just finished digging a 6' deep hole and patching the service line on. my. own. I'm in rest mode and I will flip the fuck out if anybody says a word about my grass. Flip. Out.
