Originally Posted by
JudyKayTee
You have lived there for 10 months and have had bed bugs for two?
In order to resolve this you would not pay for pest control, they would sue you, you would both present your evidence. They will probably claim if you didn't have bed bugs before but you now, if the previous tenant didn't have them, if no one else has them, they moved in with you. You will claim they did not. The Court will decide. As far as reporting them, I don't see that they are in violation of anything. If they had not called the exterimator, what would you have done?
Your argument is that they moved in with someone else in your building. From Wikipedia:
"People can often acquire bedbugs at hotels, motels, or bed-and-breakfasts, and bring them back to their homes in their luggage. They also can pick them up by inadvertently bringing infested furniture or used clothing to their household. If someone is in a place that is severely infested, bedbugs may actually crawl onto and be carried by people's clothing, although this is atypical behaviour — except in the case of severe infestations, bedbugs are not usually carried from place to place by people on clothing they are currently wearing. Bedbugs may travel between units in multi-unit dwellings, such as condominiums and apartment buildings, after being originally brought into the building by one of the above routes. Bedbugs can also be transmitted via animal vectors including wild birds and household pets."