If it does matter, the apartment is located in Minnesota, Minneapolis/Saint Louis Park. My girlfriend and I moved into an apartment on May 1, 2017 (little over a month ago). It was a pretty bad experience right out of the gate; apartment was FILTHY (cobwebs in all the corners), kitchen and bathroom faucet leaked, already had ants and spiders, tub was dirty, floor was dirty, door casing is basically falling off of the door, basically everything I didn't want. When I had originally toured it, the leasing agent had said the current tenant was really messy, and that they would be cleaning it up/fixing stuff up (clearly they didn't).
We noted everything on our move in sheet, and called the property mgmt company and told them about it. They offered to get someone out as soon as possible to finish cleaning and fix the faucets, we took them up on the faucets, but at that point we had already gone through and deep cleaned because we just wanted to move in.
Fast forward a few weeks... I'm particularly clean, and I do not like bugs, not at all. We continue to find spiders and ants crawling throughout random areas of the house (probably because all the baseboards and door casing are 1/4 inch from being tight, and the fake wood floor that was put in was done in such a way that I can see dirt underneath certain spots where it is short from the wall/cabinets), but I try to deal with the spiders and ants on my own by just spraying some bug killer purchased at Target - I don't want to be that needy tenant.
About a month into our lease, I am giving the apartment a deep clean, and I end up finding two dead roaches. Freaking out begins here. I find it absolutely disgusting. So I write my property management an email, asking them to resolve this. I hear back from them the next day, they said they will send over pest control the following week. I ask what I need to do to prepare, all they said is have any pets out of the place. Pest control comes, and they spray around the baseboards, and thats about it.
Then today rolls around, and I start to notice a few itch bumps on random spots of my body. Because of where they are placed, I am a bit concerned that something is biting me in my sleep. I try convincing myself that it is just a mosquito getting me in my sleep, but I still end up tearing off the sheets and checking for bed bugs. Although I didn't see any tell - tale signs of them, I did in the process find a few weird looking bugs hiding under the the side of the mattress (not bed bugs though, not sure what they were). This brings on deep clean mode, because I am determined to get rid of these things. I pull the bed out from the wall and find 4 spiders that are running around (killed them!), I start cleaning/spraying around the baseboards throughout the rest of the place and I ended up finding/killing 7 silverfish.
So TLDR: I keep finding bugs in my apartment, even after they came and sprayed. I honestly just want to move to something that isn't ground level so I can avoid (or have less of) these problems. What are my options??
Sorry for the wall of text. Thanks for any replies.
Cheers.
