Should the apartment tell me if someone in the building has bedbugs so that I can protect my house and my family?
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Should the apartment tell me if someone in the building has bedbugs so that I can protect my house and my family?
About 5 months ago I developed a rash from head to toe. I went to the apartment and asked them to send in an exterminator to make sure it wasn’t something in my house biting me. The exterminator said we didn’t have any bugs at all in our house. So I started going to the doctor once ever few weeks trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I was really sick and couldn’t find anything wrong with me. So when I was cleaning and found a few bugs in the house I realized they made me break out. When I took them to the office they didn’t do anything about.
Asked on December 27, 2011 under Real Estate Law, North Carolina
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If the landlord has knowledge that the apartment complex that he owns and rents out to third parties such as you has bed bugs in some units, he or she is under an affirmative obligation to have the vermin erradicated under typical health code requirements in the various states in this country. The attempt to eliminate the vermin should be done in a timely manner.
Likewise, the landlord should advise all tenants in the complex that there is a vermin problem so as to be advised if other units have possible problems so that the issue can be taken care of.
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