What is the name of your state? Texas
We just recently moved from california to Texas We rented a house here in san antonio tx and as we filled out our paperwork for things wrong with the house we noticed a bug on the wall in the hallway we just ignored it as we are used to seeing weird bugs when we move into places It looked like a tick and after we determined it was not then we relaxed we just assumed it was some weird bug around here like an earwig was in california After we started unpacking we were seeing more of them on the walls and on baseboards we finally got internet and one night after seeing one climbing up my couch i decided to see what these things were I was shocked to discover they were bed bugs We started seeing more and killing them and keeping them to show landlords exterminators We called our landlords and they sent there exterminators they work with They investigated and pretty much declared they were already here because they were not in our beds or anything yet So they came and sprayed and i my family came to visit and we discovered more in a room that we had never even seen any in I have taken pictures of where i killed them because they were full of blood and left stains which means they had fed on someone The ones we were seeing before had not This is causing me stress I cannot eat or sleep I m constantly walking around my house checking for them and i even leave the lights on at night which is going to cost us on the electric bill i have had to rewash everything and dry it which again will costs us in electric and water The exterminators came again and sprayed after i called and said i was seeing more But they do not know much about bedbugs as they did not spray the attic or garage like i had asked and they just said give it a week Now i know it takes several treatments but they are telling me to wait months By that time they can really get bad I found one crawling on my hallway floor last night after they sprayed I have only found 2 dead since they sprayed but most are still alive We are fixing to talk to our landlords about maybe getting exterminators who know what they are doing but if they make us pay we cannot afford that WE have already paid so much just to move here I know bedbugs can get into everything and even if we move we risk taking them with us I cannot live like this anymore I have a 4 year old son to worry about We have never heard of or dealt with this before What is the law about bedbugs Is it the landlords responsibility to get rid of them the only thing in our lease i see that might cause a problem is saying we took this house as is and that we are to pay periodic preventative or additional exetermination costs But it does say they have to pay for a condition that adversely affects the health or safety of an ordinary tenant which is not caused by tenant an occupant a member of the tenants family and or guest Now the exterminator says they do not pose a health risks but i believe differently with what i am going through I just want to know everything before we have a talk with our landlords so they cannot pull anything over our heads Now if we are really responsible then of course we will accept that but i think its there responsibilty since they were already here before we moved and i have a friend who helped me move in and saw one before our stuff was even in here too So i m pretty much wanting to know whose responsibilty it is to further take care of this problem? I feel these bugs have to be taken care of aggressively and noone seems to want to do that Hope you can help!
We just recently moved from california to Texas We rented a house here in san antonio tx and as we filled out our paperwork for things wrong with the house we noticed a bug on the wall in the hallway we just ignored it as we are used to seeing weird bugs when we move into places It looked like a tick and after we determined it was not then we relaxed we just assumed it was some weird bug around here like an earwig was in california After we started unpacking we were seeing more of them on the walls and on baseboards we finally got internet and one night after seeing one climbing up my couch i decided to see what these things were I was shocked to discover they were bed bugs We started seeing more and killing them and keeping them to show landlords exterminators We called our landlords and they sent there exterminators they work with They investigated and pretty much declared they were already here because they were not in our beds or anything yet So they came and sprayed and i my family came to visit and we discovered more in a room that we had never even seen any in I have taken pictures of where i killed them because they were full of blood and left stains which means they had fed on someone The ones we were seeing before had not This is causing me stress I cannot eat or sleep I m constantly walking around my house checking for them and i even leave the lights on at night which is going to cost us on the electric bill i have had to rewash everything and dry it which again will costs us in electric and water The exterminators came again and sprayed after i called and said i was seeing more But they do not know much about bedbugs as they did not spray the attic or garage like i had asked and they just said give it a week Now i know it takes several treatments but they are telling me to wait months By that time they can really get bad I found one crawling on my hallway floor last night after they sprayed I have only found 2 dead since they sprayed but most are still alive We are fixing to talk to our landlords about maybe getting exterminators who know what they are doing but if they make us pay we cannot afford that WE have already paid so much just to move here I know bedbugs can get into everything and even if we move we risk taking them with us I cannot live like this anymore I have a 4 year old son to worry about We have never heard of or dealt with this before What is the law about bedbugs Is it the landlords responsibility to get rid of them the only thing in our lease i see that might cause a problem is saying we took this house as is and that we are to pay periodic preventative or additional exetermination costs But it does say they have to pay for a condition that adversely affects the health or safety of an ordinary tenant which is not caused by tenant an occupant a member of the tenants family and or guest Now the exterminator says they do not pose a health risks but i believe differently with what i am going through I just want to know everything before we have a talk with our landlords so they cannot pull anything over our heads Now if we are really responsible then of course we will accept that but i think its there responsibilty since they were already here before we moved and i have a friend who helped me move in and saw one before our stuff was even in here too So i m pretty much wanting to know whose responsibilty it is to further take care of this problem? I feel these bugs have to be taken care of aggressively and noone seems to want to do that Hope you can help!