Posted by DannaB on December 21, 2006, at 23:53:22
I will warn you before you read on...let me preface this by saying that this is gross!!
I am dealing with an unfortunate situation. The apt. building where I have been living has an infestation with bedbugs. For those of you who don't know about them, they are like ticks that live in the cracks in the floor and walls of your home. Once you get them it is extremely difficult, time consuming and expensive to get rid of them. In fact, it's almost impossible. Simple fumigation doesn't work...treatment is much more involved than that.
Therefore I am in the process of moving to a new apartment. I am replacing all of my furniture, a very expensive and frustrating process, and I'm being very careful about what I bring to the new place.
The problem is that these bugs can be carried from place to place, and I am terrified of bringing them to my new building. Besides for the fact that I would have to deal with this problem all over again, it would surely be traced to me, as the super lives in my building (it's a small one) and is extremely nosey and involved in his tenants' lives.
It's not so much that I feel there would be legal repercussions. It's more that this is a stressful situation--the worry that I will spread this problem and make all of my new neighbors and my super really mad at me for bring this problem. However, no matter how careful I am there is no guarantee that I will not bring them with me. Moving is bad enough, but with all of this I am so stressed out that I can barely deal.
poster:DannaB
thread:715597
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