Cockroaches Among Them

[Todd Handriegh]

Been dealing with a "small" cockroach issue for several months now.  I hired an exterminator immediately as soon as the tenant reported it to me.  I've had probably six follow up treatments.  At first it was just the oriental type, or waterbugs as they are commonly called.  They would only show up when we got lots of rain.

recently though,  the smaller German type showed up.  The ones everyone says are the most pervasive.  I've doubled down with the exterminator, once every couple weeks.  Tenant finds 2 or 3 dead ones, or slow moving ones that have been poisoned.

Its a 2 unit building,  and the other tenant has started to see the Germans show up.  We've treated the entire building pretty thoroughly, minus the basement, because the basement just has too much of the tenants storage clutter down there.  I've had the sewer line scoped to make sure its not broken, we don't have any dry p traps.

I don't want to raid bomb the place because I worry about liability.  But im getting more desperate.  If I have a vacancy anytime soon, how can I rerent it until I'm 100% sure we are roach free?  

This issue keeps me up at night.  I couldn't sleep in my bed if I thought they would be crawling on me.  I don't expect my tenants to do so either.