Three tenants of Presidential Towers, the West Loop high-rise, yesterday filed a lawsuit claiming they’ve had bedbugs since last fall, according to the Chicago Tribune. Bedbugs in Chicago? In one of the city’s ritziest rentals, no less?
Actually, we shouldn’t be shocked at these accusations; according to this story in Budget Travel, these tiny bloodsuckers rarely discriminate between dives and top-notch resorts. Still – gross! Some of us here at the Yo have lived in New York, the bedbug capital of America, and while we haven’t battled the critters ourselves, some of our friends have. For the uninitiated: you don’t just go in and spray a little bit here and there and the bedbugs go away. Some one we know had to throw out her bed and pretty much everything in her apartment with a porous surface, then move out for a week.
It appears that Presidential Towers hasn’t taken those kinds of drastic measures yet. According to the Trib, the suit alleges that the management has sent in exterminators, but it hasn’t helped. If there are in fact bedbugs in Presidential Towers, getting them out is going to require some major upheaval. And since vermin usually spread throughout a building, one wonders if there are bedbugs any more of the building’s roughly 2,600 units.
Holy beg-bugs batman, what is Sam going to if the Presidential Towers management moves him out for a few days during the extermination visit?
LOL @ anyone calling PT a ritzy place!!!
Hello,
My name is Sean and I am a former pest control technician and now Quality Assurance Manager and Technical Advisor for one of North America’s largest pest control companies.
I have spent the better part of the past five years studying and researching bed bugs. It has literally become a hobby.
I have created a website geared toward providing the public with a place to go to get unbiased information and allow industry professionals to communicate with each other on this issue.
The site is called The Bed Bug Resource (www.thebedbugresource.com). At the top of the page there is a Forum button that will take you to the message boards.
If you find this to be a useful resource please feel free to post a link to it, or pass the information on to colleagues and the general public.
If you reference the site or use any of its material I ask that a copy of the article be sent to me.
Sincerely,
Sean
Entomologist / Pest Professional
http://www.thebedbugresource.com
Joe Zekas shouldn’t you now create
a lable for Sean’s type like “NBIMB”…
No Bugs In My Bed 🙂
…with Section 8 you get all sorts of critters!
Jeffery,
I’m going with BIMBO – Bugs in My Bed – Out!
PS. Presidential Towers is NOT a ritzy development… perhaps in the 1970’s!! But, definitely NOT now… and not for some time…