Ohio & Bed Bugs Allegations

[Johnothan Edward Layne]

1. Tenant signed a 1 year lease, with a Move-In form with pictures; and the pictures showed the house with no insects. 

2. A few days later, the tenant says there's trash and mice droppings in the kitchen cabinets. 

3. We send the maintenance crew out there to do a cleaning.

4. Tenant later says the carpet smells like dog urine. We had previously steamed cleaned the carpet and no dog smell was present. We still tried to make her feel better by getting a orange peel deodorizer which afterwards,  she had no complaints. 

5. Tenant says she feels there are bed bugs in the house and found one dead in her car. States her daughter looks like she's been bit.

6. Sent the maintenance crew out and could find no evidence of bed bugs. 

7. Tenant requests trampoline and is denied per lease agreement. 

8. Tenant wants to break the lease early and states she's called an exterminator and he or she has indicated a prior infestation had once been there, but no live infestations are there. 

9. Tenant indicates that I told her no bed bugs had ever been there and then called Code Enforcement and the Community Action Center after I refused to return her deposit; that is, after she agreed the deposit was no longer hers in a text message.. I also explained that no bed bugs ever were there and no tenant has ever complained about them (the prior tenant lived there for three years).

10. She has only lived there 2 1/2 weeks.