Having experienced bedbugs and found ways to get rid of them I created Bed Bug Denver.  I want to share this information with you. Those nasty little bloodsuckers will make your life miserable given half a chance. 

So read my story and you can find out how to get rid of them.  Here is a link to some information provided by the State of Colorado.

Disclosure Note: Just so you know or are wondering, I am not a professional exterminator. Bed Bug Denver is based on my experiences.  But I probably have more knowledge than a lot of other people.  And I want to tell you how we got rid of bed bugs that infested our apartment. I will give you ideas on what to look at when choosing an extermination company.

It probably started just as it did for me, finding itchy red spots or blood smears on your sheets. You may even have heard about an infestation of bed bug denver in your building. So you do what I did, go online to find more information. 

By the way here is a link to a page about tips for treating bed bug bites to make them a little more bearable.

One of the first steps in treating for bed bugs is to find out if it is actually these bugs that are bothering you.  Since they are so hard to find it will take a little detective work to find them.

Here is a link to another page where do bed bugs hide?

I also wanted to use Bed Bug Denver to get rid of some common misconceptions:

• Finding that you have bed bugs does not mean that you or your home are dirty. These bugs don’t care about how clean or dirty you are, they just want to blood feed on you. More Facts About Bed Bugs Here
• Another major misconception is that the bugs are easy to kill. All you have to do is let the landlord know and with one spraying they will be gone. WRONG!! These bugs are nasty conniving and very resistant to normal pesticides.  An exterminator can get better pesticides but even they might not be effective. To get rid of them and keep bed bugs out of your home you will need to do some work. 
• Although a landlord can make the problem worse by ignoring it, they can also do everything in their power and a building can still have bedbugs. Who Is responsible for keeping bed bugs away.

Here is the Truth

I’ve found through Denver Bed Bug that these bugs are excellent hitchhikers. They can come into your home on your clothes, through holes for the pipes of a building, and HVAC systems. Some can even come in the mail from shipments that are sent from infested warehouses. The bugs can get into your home in used furniture or find their way there from a neighbor. Where do bed bugs come from?

Another problem is that many exterminators don’t know how to kill bed bugs.  They rely on the methods and products that they use for other bugs and those just won’t work.  If you decide to hire an exterminator or the building that you live in hires one they need to be trained for dealing with these bugs.

How To Find Find A Local Bed Bug Exterminator

You can also make an extermination a lot more effective if you use the methods that are outline here in bed bug Denver.  You want to make your home as bedbug as unfriendly as possible.

Getting Ready For a Bed Bug Exterminator

 You can hire an exterminator or do it yourself or some combination of these two options.  Living in an apartment building we always had problems.  Certain neighbors wouldn’t allow the exterminators in so they became ground zero for new infestations throughout the building.

Bed Bugs and Neighbors Infestations

Making bed bug denver taught me a lot about how to kill bed bugs.  It answered the question about how do bed bugs get into your house and many others.

So, Here is My Story

I live with my partner in a building located in the downtown area of Denver. The building is a low-income disabled building that my partner first moved into after receiving disability. I moved in some time later to help him manage his disability and because we are very close.

We are probably luckier than a lot of other folks because the managers here try to maintain a nice building.  They are right on it when there is a call about an infestation in someone’s apartment.  If your building manager isn’t helpful here are some contact numbers that you need and what your rights are at this City of Denver resource.  

Like a lot of people I’d never seen an actual bed bug before moving into this building. When I first moved in I was amazed to see all my partner’s furniture, his mattress, and other belongings piled into the very center of the rooms.

When I asked him why he had done this he showed me a notice he had found taped to his front door.  It was from the building management. The notice recommended that when an apartment was scheduled to be sprayed the resident should pull furniture and such a few inches from the walls.  This was so the exterminator would be able to spray there. His apartment was scheduled to be sprayed the next day so he had everything pulled into the center of the rooms.

I had managed apartments so I had dealt with exterminating cockroaches but had never run into bedbugs before. But I still suspected what was meant was a few inches.  Yet he still insisted everything had to be pulled to the center of the room.

Learning About Bed Bugs

Then I found out the reason that he was overreacting was because the apartment was infested.  He showed me the bed bug bites he had gotten to prove it. The bites never bothered me as much as him.  But the thought of these blood-feeders crawling over me in the early morning freaked me out.  So I decided that I needed to create Bed Bug Denver to make more information on how to get rid of bedbugs available.

It took us on a steep learning curve and creating Bed Bug Denver to educate ourselves on the proper products and procedures.  We would need to use all of them to get rid of the bugs. We threw away several infested mattresses and chairs along the way, but eventually, we started to learn how to take care of them.

Learn How to Kill Bed Bugs in Your Mattress Here