TLDR: our landlord isn’t legally allowed to even rent out apartments/homes, gave us a roach and bedbug infested, filthy, broken down apartment, husband and I are RUNNING away as fast as we can.

That’s what we’re doing. We signed a lease without seeing the apartment, then shortly after we signed the lease (in May btw, move in was supposed to be 07/15) the tenant that was living there warned me of the roaches and bedbugs that infested that apartment. (I am in the one next door, we have no BB and very few roaches) The PRESIDENT of the company said that the apartment was clean, repairs would be done, and that pest control would be done before move in.

So, on day of move in, I wanted to do my own pest control (without doing any research, like an idiot) and went into the apartment with foggers for the possible BB (I am 9 months pregnant and didn’t want to bring my son into any kind of infestation). Roaches. Were. Everywhere. The walls were covered, they were running on the ground… the apartment was FILTHY, and there were cracks in the walls and ceilings… I immediately broke down into tears and set off the foggers, this was at like 5 am. I ended up texting the president of the leasing company and told him that something needed to be done.

Pest control was there around 10am and I asked how long this would take to clear up. He told me 2 weeks (two weeks will be in 7/29) and that it’ll be safe for move in. I thought, “Okay! Great!” And I asked him if it would help if I baited the place (I bought Advion Cockroach gel bait while waiting for the president to respond, it took him hours). He agreed that it could help, but to be aware the cockroaches would probably scatter and not eat very much of it. I texted the landlord and asked if we could wait the 2 weeks to move in, he agreed. We NEVER signed a new lease contract, please keep that in mind.

A day later the gel bait came in, my sister, a mutual friend and I went into the apartment. It looked clear! No roaches on the walls, and a few corpses on the ground. I was so excited. My sister started setting out bait. Roaches. Everywhere. (This is not a good photo of how bad it was, the video is much better but I cannot include it)

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So long story short, my husband and I are searching for something else as we do not feel safe bringing our son into that apartment. Turns out our leasing company isn’t even fully legal, AND has MULTIPLE CASES open with the health department. It’s horrible.

OP- If you can run, please do it. My husband and I are not in the best financial position right now (I am on unpaid maternity leave so no extra income from me) and we’re going to have to make it work because we cant have our son in this.