X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <54CAB9E1.2000002@sbcglobal.net> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:53:21 -0800 From: Richard Childers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ggoade@ci.fortuna.ca.us, ray.smith@co.humboldt.ca.us Subject: 137 12th Street, 95540, Still Has Bedbugs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gentlemen, First, my thanks for listening, and being of service to my family during this difficult time. May I say, gentlemen, your forensic building inspector rocks! Second ... I just spoke to the guy from Terminex, who's doing the rounds of the apartments. He's different from the previous guys. He says he is their best bedbug guy. He seemed to know what he was talking about. He was equipped with a small and very powerful flashlight. That was a good sign. He searched every angle of every room, looking for indications of bedbugs. He checked pillows, and blankets, too. He said that they have found bedbugs in one apartment so far, during today's inspection. He would not tell me which apartment. I respect that. He thought that he might find more. He was only half way through his inspection. He also said that the previous times that Terminex has done treatments here, they have not found people prepared - IE, clothing not bagged or boxed, no clearance along the baseboards, etc. (That's not surprising. There was only support from management, that first time - free garbage bags, free washers, free dryers. Ever since then, there's been nothing but a notice on the door - sometimes, with a 'no-show' - which PPM excused, by claiming that, because we didn't have bedbugs any more, we didn't need another inspection. Kind of circular thinking, always leading towards the same thing - how to not spend any money. No real leadership, if you know what I mean.) He said that he has a very firm policy that if all the apartments are not ready, he doesn't do the treatment - he reschedules for another day. Yay! He said he has another firm policy - all of the apartments are treated. If he can't do all the apartments, he won't do any of the apartments. Yay! He said he has recommended that the apartment complex undergo at least two complete treatments - he may recommend three treatments. Yay! He also said that if that did not work then he would recommend fumigation - wrapping the buildings in tarps and doing a complete treatment. YAY! Basically, he's saying the same thing I said six-plus months ago - that the process would only be successful if it was applied diligently, consistently, and with discipline. Third, PPM has finally authorized the purchase of window screens. For our one apartment. I asked the onsite manager if his apartment had screens. He said, 'no'. Apparently PPM has not given him permission to replace his missing window screens ... or anyone else's missing window screens, either. ("Public health be damned! It's not cost-effective. Let them buy their own window screens!") I'd guess they don't want to pay for window screens because they can't take it out of the cleaning deposit, because they don't plan to return the cleaning deposit, anyway, and, anyway, the money has already been spent. Or am I being cynical? Regards, ~richard 707-725-7995 PS: As it so happens, I saw, yesterday, that Fortuna's notorious National 9 Motel had been reduced to a skeleton and was undergoing some sort of serious remediation. I'm assuming they are replacing all the aged plasterboard, and wiring, etc - basically, what 137 12th Street needs done.