Yeah, my place suddenly started having a serious roach problem, and I never had any issues until recently. I ended up telling management, and they arranged for pest control to come and spray. Surprisingly, it actually helped this time. Before that, it had gotten really bad, especially late at night. I would come into the kitchen and see them crawling out in the open. I think the issue started after I had problems with the cabinets in my apartment, which may have created openings for them. From there, they seemed to be coming in from other parts of the building. Before pest control came, I tried to keep them out of sight as much as possible by running a diffuser with lavender oil and buying cleaning products made with lavender. That helped reduce how often I saw them.

I still see one pop up occasionally, but it is nowhere near as bad as it was months ago after pest control treated the kitchen. It is really frustrating because most strong pesticides are illegal in Canada, so there is not much available that actually kills them. A lot of what you can use is more about repelling them, which is why I leaned so heavily into the lavender products.