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Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 08:49:26 -0700
From: Richard Childers <fscked@sbcglobal.net>
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To: jessica.ppmrentals@gmail.com
Subject: Re: 137 12th Street: Exterminator A No-Show. Cockroaches In The Bathroom.
 Slugs In The Kitchen. Yum!
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I just found a baby cockroach in the bathroom.

Presumably where there is one baby cockroach there are a few thousand more.

I preserved it in a plastic bag in my freezer for identification by the 
Department of Agriculture, next week.

May I ask why you have not replied to my previous email on this topic?


Regards,

~ richard



On 08/22/14 12:06, Richard Childers wrote:
> Jessica,
>
> We received a memo on our door the evening of 19 August announcing 
> that a cockroach exterminator would be onsite the 21st between 10 Am 
> and 12 PM and that we would need to be present.
>
> We were here - but the exterminator was a no-show.
>
> Which is odd, because I saw the same exterminator drive through the 
> complex, a few days earlier - we have a working acquaintance because 
> he is local to Fortuna and was the first person to confirm the bedbug 
> infestation.
>
> He didn't seem like an unreliable sort of person.
>
> And so I am inclined to wonder if there was some sort of last-minute 
> change of heart on the part of the owner, regarding the preferred vendor?
>
> Because the owner strikes me as a sort of unreliable person. 
> Penny-wise, maybe, but pound-foolish.
>
> Speaking as the person occupying the apartment directly beneath Alan 
> Attar's bug-infested apartment, I need to report that over the past 
> few days I have seen a surge of cockroaches, large and small - late at 
> night, around 3 AM, when I go into the bathroom, and turn on the 
> light, three times in the past three nights I have surprised a cockroach.
>
> The first two got away but the third one wasn't so lucky. #1 was a 
> baby. #2 was pretty big. #3 was a teenager.
>
> Food for thought.
>
> I also found trails of slug slime all over my kitchen hand towels two 
> mornings ago. I set the towels aside to show them to the exterminator 
> and ask if he had anything for slugs. I still have the towels.
>
> I don't want to distribute slug bait inside my kitchen. That's for 
> outdoor use - not indoor use - and it's not safe for use around 
> children, either.
>
> I'd direct this to Dan Janney but his email was not included on the 
> memo - and I prefer to communicate in writing.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> ~richard
>
>