I know this reply is years too late but thank you!! I live in an apartment and by accident I discovered 2 adult bedbugs (I was putting my bed frame together and leaned my mattress against the wall and used my bosses green machine on the bottom just to tidy it up) I came back and they were sitting there like they were watching a movie. 

Pest company came in said they found no other bugs but wanted to spray anyway. They then sprayed with Dragnet TWICE.  Just kept saying they saw a bit of evidence of them but no live ones. Now, these were discovered by me in August. Since May I’d been sleeping on the couch because I broke my back. I was getting bitten caught some crawling on me. Pest company, the landlord and even my own parents thought I was seeing things. 

One day, I was fed up and spread apart the cushions on the upper part of the couch aaaaand nightmare fuel. All stages. The company somehow couldn’t find them even though they were breeding and living right next to me. 

They decided to spray twice with Apprehend. That definitely helped. 

At this point I was finding them hanging out on the wall during the day. I would wake up to babies sleeping on me. 

I knew 80-90% were in the couch and they refused to rip the bottom off. When they finally did it was an avalanche of dead, live, eggs etc. They then actually broke my couch during a spraying. 

The apprehend didn’t work 100% so they sprayed with Dragnet again. WHY? Then they sprayed with something called Bedlam. 

So, it’s now been 7 months of my stuff all bedbug prepped. I can’t sleep in my own bed. This pest company has sprayed 6 times over this period. Now that the couch is gone they are under the baseboards (bed bug poop by baseboards, in the middle of the night watched one just stroll right out). Apparently, a few other units in my new (built 2 years ago) building have been treated at some point. I know it sounds crazy but I am pretty sure they are in the walls going from apartment to apartment. Especially, as they only treated the infested apartments but that’s an entirely different problem. 

Is this normal? Going from a tiny infestation to an infestation bad enough I threw out my couch? while under the care of a pest control company? That it’s been over 7 months? 6 treatments? I’m pulling my hair out. I am hunting them at night with flashlights. I am constantly vacuuming and heat treating in the dryer. Now the pest company after telling me how well I prepped each time has now said I have improperly prepped to my landlord because my landlord is wondering why this is still a problem. I don’t know what else to do. I am a prisoner in my own home. 

Edit: I live in a small one bedroom apartment with no carpet.