Lesson # 1 is that if you see tiny roaches around, you already have a problem, especially if you see a number of them all at once. Lesson #2, the second you realize there was a roach issue, you should have contacted the landlord and insisted that he spray. He is responsible for things like this. Lesson #3, it is notoriously difficult to get rid of roaches in a multiple unit dwelling like an apartment building, because the roaches move from apartment to apartment through the walls, so unless ALL the other units are being sprayed as well, you are going to keep getting roaches.

I have had roach infestations before simply by allowing someone who had roaches to come and stay with me for a few days. It was horrible and in the end, I still was spraying every 3-6 months because we would start seeing a few. Knowing what I know, there is no way I would have moved into an apartment if I even saw one roach while viewing it.

The land lord might pay a bug man. It will cost a whole lot for him to pay for all the apartments. And if the renters don't help, the roaches will always be there. If you have light brown roaches, they are the German roaches that are immune to sprays and most baits. Combat is good to use and it is a lot like the Maxforce bait that exterminators use. It can be found in grocery stores and other stores.

It comes in bait stations and gel form. The gel comes in a syringe that makes it easy to put out and along the baseboards. The roaches eat it and go to their dark cracks, corners and crevices and inside the walls, where the roaches go from one apartment to the other, and die and roaches eat their dead and die and the babies eat the poop and they die. This is a way to kill the roaches in their dark hiding places. With a lot of roaches, it can take a week for this to work.

It is justifiably the landlords problem. Be careful with sprays. You don't want to transfer the poison to your food, your hands etc. Although cockroaches are usually nocturnal, they may be seen more frequently during the day if a house has a major infestation. For some reason, cockroaches seem to feel safer venturing out when there are large numbers of them within a property. Additionally, the Asian cockroach is one species of cockroach that is attracted to light.

Boric acid, a white powder harmless to humans if contacted is good to sprinkle in kitchen cabinets. Also the bait stations. They hide in crevices under cabinets etc. Getting rid of them is a progressive process. What you want to do is catch/kill the adults that lay eggs. Eggs are oval grayish a little larger than a grain of rice. If you see them vacuum them up. Slowly over time as you get the adults the eggs will hatch, you kill the young who haven't laid eggs yet and eventually you get rid of them. Give it a month. Meanwhile don't poison you and your family using spray! Wipe counter tops with vinegar. Place the bait stations in dark places under kitchen sink. Pull out lower drawers and treat that area. Seal cracks around pipes under the sink. Ditto baseboards where crumbs etc. have accumulated during floor sweeping.

You need to notify the landlord as soon as possible. And ask him if he can get a pest control co out to remedy the problem .Because for every roach you see there are lots more you don't in the walls etc he should be willing to help Also tell him you started seeing them the minute you moved in.............

I moved into my apartment about 2 months ago (renting) and from the day we arrived there have been cockroaches everywhere. The first day, the place was spotless, yet there were around 10 in the sink and underneath the cupboard. I loved the place and didn't think too much of it, particularly because they were tiny, and thought that a can of surface spray would do the trick.

I have gone out and bought bait, I have sprayed the apartment with about 3 bottles of spray and they just seem to be increasing in number. They are around the lounge room and the bedrooms even during the day. We keep the apartment clean at all times, but even when it is completely spotless they are still hanging around.

We need to get pest control in to spray the apartment. Do we have to pay for this, or does our landlord? We haven't complained to them about the problem yet, which doesn't help our cause. We are new at renting and living out of home so quite clueless!

Thanks