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Renters Could Face Cleanup Bill for Bedbugs

Below is an interesting article about the issue of costs associated with bedbug infestations.

The majority of clients that call into Canada-Bedbugs.com do not know how or where they picked up bedbugs.

How can lawmakers ensure that tenants rights are protected? How can landlords ensure that new tenants are not knowingly bringing bedbugs into their [...]

Bedbug Reach the Yukon

This is an interesting article by John Thompson of the Yukon News. Click here to view original article.

Think the Yukon is safe from the scourge of bedbugs because of our cold climate?

Think again.

The bloodsuckers have tormented Sherrill Armstrong, a social housing tenant who lives on the second floor of 408 Alexander Street [...]

Screening for Bedbugs

A potential new Ontario law being proposed by New Democrat MPP Cheri DiNovo would license landlords and force them to pay to have their premises undergo a bedbug inspections an have their residence officially certified “bedbug free“.

DiNovo says the proposed bedbug bill “protects good landlords and calls bad landlords to account,” by denying license [...]

Landlords Legal and Moral Duty When Dealing With Bedbugs

Do landlords have a legal duty to report bedbug infestations to potential renters? What about a moral duty?

Should landlords be required to report all bedbug infestations in a building?  On the floor?  Neighbors above & below? Only in a specific apartment?

How far back should the landlords have to report? 1 year? 2 years? [...]

BEDBUGS AVOID PESTICIDES

. Well you may have bedbugs… Or they may be in your building….. Now what?

Call in the exterminators? Perhaps – but that solution might be short term, expensive, time consuming and traumatizing.

Bedbugs have developed resistance to many pesticides used by exterminators. They have been exposed world wide and have developed multiple resistances. University [...]