You know how much I love these! They are coming up with creative ways to come into our apartments more and more!
Could they schedule these when they do the 2 other apartment inspections – when they take off the air conditioner covers and when they put them back on? Could they schedule this when the city inspector is coming around to each and every apartment? Could they schedule it for any of those other times when they come into our apartments?
No. They make it two more times a year that they are in our apartments. That will be at least 5 times a year for inspections alone. Not for any maintenance fixes that need done, just coming to inspect.
I think I’m all worked up because I also don’t like insecticides sprayed around where my children are. Color it safe all you want, I don’t want it around my kids. We have the occasional spider and a fly here and there because the kids are in and out of the sliding glass door, but I know we don’t have bed bugs (I’m a tad noid about them actually and I’ve looked for them) and I don’t appreciate strangers that I didn’t ask to come in telling me to strip down all of my beds or they will do it for me.
Now I have to take the birds to my sister in law on Saturday and pick them up on Wednesday. Saturday and Wednesday because those are Pato’s days off and the only time I can get all the bird cages in the car without all the car seats. Plus, it gives the apartment time to air out, but the word residual bothers me. Will that just keep the bugs out? After the initial spray it won’t bother my birds (or my kids)?
Like the time frame too? Between 8 and 5. I want my kids out of the apartment when they are spraying. So, I need to make plans that involves coming back and picking them up from school and then leaving again because I don’t know what time they will be here.
Do I have any rights here to say I don’t want insecticides sprayed where my kids sleep?
I’m all for using hedge apples and natural things to keep spiders and other bugs out. I use a fly strip and fly swatter when the kids have been coming in and out of the sliding glass door and leaving it open for minutes at a time. I don’t spray anything in here like that. I use natural cleaners, I don’t spray air fresheners. Now even though I do all that stuff because I don’t want my kids (and birds) breathing in that gunk, now it gets forced on me.
What would you guys do if it was you?
Besides move.
We’re working on that. There’s two houses we are thinking about in our district and my ex-husband told me we really need to check the banks for foreclosures in this area.
But that takes time, it’s not going to happen by Monday.
(In their defense, I understand with the bed bug craze happening all over the place, I get it. I understand it. The little boogers are almost impossible to get rid of. They have to be contained. But, if I don’t have bed bugs, I should have a choice about whether they spray my apartment or not I think.)
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This is so tough…I would hate having those sprays near my family and pets too. Do you have any rights? You should try to research that because it’s important to the health and safety of your family. Good luck!