Condos & bedbugs
This is the 1st time I saw these two words in a news headline
Calgary Pest Control found nests of bed bugs behind the baseboards in Jesse Sandhu's condo. (Submitted by Calgary Pest Control)
I can’t think of anything that would upset condo owners more that to hear that there is a bedbug infestation in their building. So I wonder what the owners at this condo think after they have read this report?
Condo bed bug infestation a 'losing game,' says pest control company
CBC News
Colleen Underwood 26 November 2019
"Every time I'd move anything I'd see bed bugs. They were in my couch. They were in my bedroom. In my clothes. They were even in the kitchen drawers," Marvin Merraro told CBC News.
"You could see where they've nested," he said of the two-bedroom unit he rented at Indigo Sky Condos in Saddle Ridge.
Merraro lived in the four-storey building for almost a year. His unit was sprayed three times between May and October and the bugs seemed to go away, before returning with a vengeance, he said.
A pest management company says it's a waste of time to do it again, until the surrounding units and common areas are also treated.
"The goal is to get people bed bug free and it's like a losing game over there," said Penny Monyatsiwa at Calgary Pest Control.
But the property manager denies there's an infestation and says he and the condo board are doing all they can to address the problem.
It is common for condo Board of Directors to take the position that if one unit has an insect infestation, the owner pays to have the unit treated. If multiple units and/or the common elements have an infestation, then the condo corporation pays.
I contend that bedbugs are special. If one unit gets infested, then the corporation had better get that unit treated FAST. Treating bedbugs is expensive and it takes several treatments to exterminate them and to be sure that they have been fully wiped out.
Some owners don’t have the money, or they do not want to pay, to get rid of bedbugs on their own. So if they wait long enough, the bedbugs will spread and then the condo will act. However, by then, the costs and the anguish will soar.
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Toronto 'mansion party' shooting victim sues Airbnb, property owner
CBC News
Katie Nicholson, Jason Ho 28 November 2019
A 19-year-old who was shot at a Toronto "mansion party" hosted in an Airbnb rental is now suing the company, the property owner and the event's alleged organizers.
McCann attended the party in Toronto's west end on April 26 after one of his friends saw an ad on social media charging cover for the event, which was hosted at a mansion in Etobicoke.
When asked for comment about the lawsuit, Airbnb replied with a statement.
"The senseless violence reported has no place in the Airbnb community and we immediately removed the booking guest from our platform in April," it said. "While this listing has not been available on the Airbnb platform since September, hosting is a big responsibility and if we find that hosting activity substantially disrupts a community, we may take action against a listing — including suspension or removal."
Note that Airbnb “may take action …”
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