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Bedbugs Bed Bugs - West Valley City Utah - side by side duplex
Just had a tenant move into one side of a duplex I manage. After the first night of sleeping on the carpet in the downstairs living room they were bitten by bed bugs that night as reported by the tenant. The prior tenant and their family who was rough on the place never had an issue sharing concerns or issues with the place and did not have bed bugs during their tenancy nor the previous tenant prior to them. Currently the other side of the duplex is not reporting any issues, fingers crossed.
I'm guessing the new tenant could have inadvertently brought them in but no way to know for sure.
Since they first reported the issue a pestcontrol person has come by for round 1 of 2 treatments, that was a week ago now. The tenant just reported more bites.
Not sure what steps to take next. Any suggestions for a really good pest control person or company in the Salt Lake City area?? Realize the tenant plays huge role in this as well by cleaning and heating their clothing and bedding but not sure how else to proceed? I've shared all this info with the tenant and the pestcontrol person even spoke directly with them in terms of what to do.
Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I want to do right by the tenants but this is a business as well.
realize this topic has been posted a lot so here are a couple of those threads for reference, my thread I guess is more localized and my unique situation
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They probably brought them with. I’ve done complete down-to-the-studs remodels, and then day 1 a tenant complains of bedbugs. In 100% of the cases they left their last place because it had bedbugs also- which they probably brought with them to that place too.
Why did your new tenants sleep on the floor? Do they not own furniture? Maybe they abandoned their furniture at their previous place because it was infested with bedbugs.