Bed bug scare!!! What now....

[Atwan Kwan]

"I also need to let you know that the garbage disposal is leaking & some how there are bed bugs in my son's room mostly on my grandson's bed."

Got this nice xmas note from my tenant.

Never had to deal with bed bugs, but I KNOW it can be a big problem.....

How do I handle this? 

What's best approach from start?

This is a multi family condo so I know it needs to be contained....

I really don't need this in the middle of my holidays with my other vacant units my owners want to fill

[Davido Davido]

One tool for controlling all kinds of bugs, that I have found extremely useful and efficient, but that many landlords do not consider, is to add an insecticide to both the indoor and outdoor paint of all my rentals.  Indoors a paint insecticide does wonders to limit infestations and to disrupt their ability to grow or travel.  Outside it prevents spiders and insects from nesting under eaves, flies from sunning on walls and all insects from gathering around lights.  This product will not eliminate bedbugs by itself but , if used during routine maintenance, paint insecticides are a cost and time effective way to reduce the ability of most bugs to live and spread anywhere in the building.  Just add a little each time you paint anything. There are multiple different brands, "Bug Juice", "M-1" etc.   http://www.wwenvironmental.com/bug_juice_factsheet.php  -they all contain the same active ingredient "Deltamethrin"  http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/DeltaGen.html

Highly recommended