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Post by success19 on Dec 18, 2009 15:32:58 GMT -5
Got the notice that landlord is doing exterminations next week at anytime - I hate this - it is just to snoop - stinks up my apartment - feels like an invasion - happens at least twice a year - always at the holidays - they give no time - just a window of next week - anytime between 800 am and 430 pm - so you can't do anything but wait for them all week. It is just another form of control.
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Post by AnnieOkie on Dec 18, 2009 16:01:12 GMT -5
Try to look at the bright side. Maybe the exterminations are keeping creepy crawlies away from your home....I wish my landlord would exterminate....he never has!!
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Post by petrossian on Dec 18, 2009 16:54:39 GMT -5
If they're putting down poison, I would just say that you don't want it, esp. if you have any animals. Also, if you don't have rodents then there's no need for it.
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Post by moggyfan on Dec 18, 2009 18:20:48 GMT -5
My landlord sprays once or twice a year, mostly outside but sometimes in the apartments also. I'm glad they do it! We don't usually get much notice--a day or two.
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Post by Chris on Dec 18, 2009 19:11:13 GMT -5
I would hate the invasion too.
But I wish someone sprayed here since off and on we do have trouble with roaches.
I wish I had had someone to call about the leaking toilet this past week too and I dread dealing with the rotten roof boards -- with no money really to apply to the problem. Yet I am glad we have our privacy -- I just hope DH and I don't end up like Homer and Langley. I just finished that book and it made an impression on me to deal with things when the first act up -- not to put off problems. They were the famous brothers in NY who ultimately died in their rubble. Sorry for my rant.
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Post by success19 on Dec 19, 2009 0:20:43 GMT -5
Not when it stinks up your place at the holidays and gets into your clothes and bedding and every holiday for 20 plus years you have to spend the day sick from it and doing laundry - and you have no freaking choice. And I don't have bugs and never have. It is so they can snoop and have control over the tenants.
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Post by mellowyellow on Dec 19, 2009 0:23:38 GMT -5
It does seem like an odd time to do this, with people having friends and relatives visiting. I used to have a landlord's wife who was a snooper. Mostly because she was jealous and knew her husband messed around. She always showed up at different female apartments to make sure he wasn't there... And boy, in those days I had pure "white chaos".
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Post by creativechaos on Dec 19, 2009 19:09:01 GMT -5
perhaps if the others in your apt complex write a letter to the landlord and to the housing assoc and ask that this please NOT be right at the holidays when you are all having guests and cooking more. also if you are allergic to poisons as i am, there are alternative ways and i believe there may be laws protecting you with a doctor's note. not sure but it's worth investigating.
if you are subsidized, as we are, HUD or rural housing may have some sway over when the landlord can exterminate and how.
hugs, cc
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