So about three or four months ago, our apartments new landlord called us to inform the tenants he found roaches while cleaning our most recent move outs old apartment. These people apparently when he tore the house apart and pulled out the stove that comes with the apt. had cat S*** under it, and there was an old litter box in the laundry room piled high with waste, food everywhere, these two young kids were PIGS. (You could smell cat pee coming out their door that led into the common area. ) I know it was that particular couple because we’ve NEVER in 20+ years of living here had roaches. We’re all clean people in a nice building and all of a sudden these people take off and the landlord finds the big “R” word all through their old apartment.

He had a pest control expert come up and spray. The guy was great, stayed out of my bedroom due to our ferrets running along the baseboards when they’d play, and after tearing our home apart and SCOURING everything there wasn’t a single “R” in the house.

I just found two today. One was dead on the kitchen floor thanks to my cat, and the second just made my mother and I choke on our dinner. It ran up my arm, fell down into my skirt and finally we caught it and flushed it with some bleach down the toilet. It was definitely a “R” (I don’t even like saying the word let alone typing it *shudders*) We just got a new couple in the basement with a child, and I think the pest control guy is going to have to come back. This is DISGUSTING! Never in a million years did I think we’d have these things. I’m clean, I clean my pets litter boxes daily, vacuum at least twice a week if not more depending if I’m busy, and take out the garbage all the time. I have NO CLUE why they made it to my apartment considering its been baited and sprayed.

I need to know (sorry for the long post I’m FREAKING OUT right now!), how long this can really take to get rid of them. The pest guy sprayed under our stove, along all the baseboards except my bedroom, behind furniture, under the fridge and kitchen furniture, in front of both doors in the apartment, and put this bait gel in all the corners of the house. HOW did we suddenly get them? Can this take a long time to get rid of? Can they infest in clothing? What do you do if they do? HELP!
Thanks for the honest answer. I liked the humor in it too! People keep saying if you only see a couple that’s a good thing; frankly ONE is too many for me! I’m just baffled. We’re all clean in this apartment. My room might get cluttered once in a while but its because I have four ferrets that like to dig through the clothes baskets! I’m just so skeeved out. Its so nasty….roaches…these neighbors who moved out if I could prove it was them I’d convince the landlord to sue for the cost of pest control. They were the only constant in the arrangement that changed. They moved in and so did roaches. I can’t do any home extermination because of my pets. I have no where to take the ferrets thats safe w/o other animals, and the cat doesn’t travel well….at all. It would put him into shock. Bombs are toxic, and so are most OTC sprays. They guy who does our new pest work uses something pet safe, very dilute, and safe for use around nursing home patients with breathing issues, but just ew….