Bed bug prevention apartment steps are simple, can be accomplished in your home and it can save you thousands. It is hard to believe that these steps below could help you catch an infestation before it starts. Most people don’t know they have bed bugs until they are well into a bed bug infestation and the problem seems insurmountable. I am going to walk you through 8 simple steps you can take right now to prevent a bed bug infestation when you move into an apartment or home. Bed bugs are extremely annoying. They make a home in every crevice of an apartment and bring insects, bacteria, and viruses with them. This can be problematic for me and my roommates. That is why we want to keep apartments clean from the beginning and prevent bed bugs from ever appearing. Bed bugs are becoming a big problem in apartment complexes. That’s because bed bugs don’t care if you’re rich or poor, alone or living with a million roommates. They simply don’t discriminate. If there’s a way for them to get inside your apartment, they will find it and make themselves comfortable.
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How Do You Get Bed Bugs In Your Apartment?
If you think that your home is safe from bed bugs, you’re wrong. Bed bugs can be brought into your apartment in a number of ways:
- On clothing
- On used furniture (furniture bought at garage sales or secondhand shops)
- On luggage
How To Prevent Bed Bugs In Your Apartment
- Thoroughly clean your apartment.
- Keep your apartment tidy.
- Use a bed bug spray on your mattress. If you have access to an industrial-strength bug spray, there’s no reason not to use it! You can also buy a bed bug mattress cover from stores like Bed Bath & Beyond or Target. However, this isn’t always necessary if you keep up with regular cleaning routines and make sure that you aren’t bringing any unwanted guests in with the furniture that you bring into your place (which we will discuss further below).
- Be careful when bringing used furniture into your apartment complex or home from another location (or even just moving around within the same building). This is because bed bugs are often found in couches and chairs before they find their way into apartments where people sleep at night; so even if someone else has had them in their living space before yours but thoroughly cleaned all of those surfaces after removing pests from their belongings once they left their previous home/apartment complex—you still might get them!
How To Prevent Getting Bed Bugs In Your Apartment
As a tenant, it’s important to know how to prevent getting bed bugs in your apartment. Here are some tips from the experts:
- Don’t bring used furniture into your apartment. Bed bugs can live for up to 18 months without food, so secondhand furniture is at high risk of harboring bed bug eggs and nymphs. Instead of buying used furniture from thrift stores or Craigslist, you can also purchase new items from reputable online retailers like Overstock—and don’t forget to check their return policy!
- Don’t bring used clothing into your apartment. Clothes are another potential source of bed bugs if they were previously owned by someone else who had an infestation or traveled abroad recently (bed bugs have been found on clothing worn by travelers). You should be especially careful not to bring clothes that have been sitting around in piles or bags for too long; instead put them straight into the washer as soon as possible after you buy them at retail stores like Target and Walmart!
- Don’t bring mattresses or pillows (especially old ones) into your apartment either! Mattresses often harbor many different kinds of insects including ticks which may cause Lyme disease if they bite humans directly; therefore we recommend buying new mattresses only when necessary instead using hand-me down ones from friends/family members who live elsewhere.”
Knowing the right ways to prevent getting bed bugs in your apartment is the first step to less stress.
- Don’t bring them in from outside. Bed bugs can come into your apartment by hitchhiking on items that you bring into your home. They are not harmful to humans, but they will bite and cause an allergic reaction in anyone who is sensitive to them. Since bed bugs are not dangerous and cannot be seen with the naked eye, it is important that you take precautions when bringing new items into your apartment so that you don’t accidentally bring something home that has been infested with bed bugs.
- Don’t transfer them from other rooms in the apartment. It’s also important to keep all room temperatures consistent throughout the entire unit so that there aren’t any hot spots for the pests to live or breed in certain areas of the house or building. You may want to consider using a portable heater or fan during those cold winter months if necessary because this could help prevent having too much humidity build up inside some of those smaller rooms like closets where moisture doesn’t evaporate as quickly as outside air does when temperatures drop below freezing levels outside during colder months here on Earth!
- Don’t let them come in from other apartments through cracks around doors/windows etc., though sometimes it might seem like a good idea at first glance since this way would save money since we wouldn’t need extra measures taken just yet since our neighbors already did all their work beforehand…but remember: Just because they’ve done all their work doesn’t mean they’ve done enough yet either! Remember: We still have plenty more work ahead of us as well (and maybe even more after) before everything gets done properly 100% correctly every time every single day throughout all 365 days per year forevermore!
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