KNOCKOUT – NEW YORK CITY’S WAR ON BED BUGS – New Housing and Health Codes Enacted

April 1, 2011

NYC BB Affidavit

As a professional pest control on the front lines of eliminating bed bug infestations, KNOCKOUT PEST CONTROL applauds last week’s actions taken by the New York City Council, Speaker – Christine Quinn, the chair of the Public Housing Committee – Rosie Menendez, NYC’s DOH&MH Department, and the Health Department’s deputy commissioner for environmental health, on their extraordinary efforts to combat the recent Bed Bug surge in NYC and surrounding metro area.

At KNOCKOUT PEST CONTROL, it is as if we have been given the equivalent of a “Presidential Finding” allowing property owners to “seek and destroy” Bed Bug infestations wherever Bed Bugs may flee and hide. This may sound a little dramatic, but to those apartment dwellers in particular who have or had Bed Bug infestations – or – live next door to someone with a Bed Bug problem, these new rules and regulations is an answer to ending their fears and in some cases - nightmares.

Both NYC Housing and Health Codes require that property owners address Bed Bug infestations promptly. In their efforts, NYC has taken the additional steps to prompt property owners to properly address the issues of Bed Bug infestations they have past new measures. Some of these new measures include:

• Owners must now inspect, and if necessary treat units adjacent to, above and below any unit where bed bugs are found.
  
  
• Where bed bugs persist, or occur in multiple apartments in the same building, the Health Department will require property owners take several additional pest removal steps (i.e., notify tenants that bed bugs have been identified in the building, develop and distribute a building-wide Pest Management Plan to all tenants).
  
  
• To verify that bed bug infestations have been properly treated and conditions conducive to infestation have been addressed, owners who are repeat offenders must have their licensed exterminator complete an Affidavit of Correction of Pest Infestation.
  
  
• Owners, who fail to provide these documents in a timely way to the Health Department, will be issued a Notice of Violation and will be required to appear at a hearing before the City’s Environmental Control Board where fines may be issued and non-compliant landlords may end up with a lien on their property, which was not possible before.
  
  

Some property owners may think these actions are overreaching, but addressing the problem of Bed Bug infestation properly and comprehensively initially is the best way to avoid continual re-infestation problems of adjacent apartment cross infestation – saving property owners not only thousands of dollars but the onslaught of tenant complaints and grief in the long run.

And DON’T go the heat remediation route when treating for Bed Bugs, that route would almost be impossible to do in a high rise with multiple units involved on multiple floors; not to mention the inconvenience to the tenants – the latest in FREEZING technology is the ONLY way to go – it’s AFFORDABLE, FAST, and EFFECTIVE.

At KNOCKOUT PEST CONTROL, besides having Certified Bed Bug Detection Dogs to pinpoint and localize areas/apartment infested or NOT infested with Bed Bugs; and physically removes obvious areas of Bed Bug infestation; KNOCKOUT PEST CONTROL use the revolutionary and environmentally green approach to killing Bed Bugs – the CRYONITE freezing system that kills even the Bed Bugs you can’t see, hiding in cracks and crevasses, wall voids, electrical outlets, furniture joints , behind mirrors and art work on walls… and more. And CRYONITE doesn’t damage furniture, plants, and is NOT harmful to pets or people. Treatment can take only a couple of hours with tenants moving back in as soon as the Pest Control Tech is finished.

Plus KNOCKOUT PEST CONTROL explains that treating for a Bed Bug infestation problem – that NO qualified pest control company would say that it only requires one visit. A qualified pest control professional, like KNOCKOUT PEST CONTROL, will tell you that a second visit is required to confirm that ALL the Bed Bugs have been eradicated from an apartment. Not even the best Bed Bug extermination treatments are 100%. That’s why KNOCKOUT PEST CONTROL leaves discrete monitoring devices. Our highly trained and experienced Pest Control Techs will return to make sure the problem has been thoroughly addressed. That is how a professional Bed Bug Elimination Company handles Bed Bug infestation problems – with a service that’s AFFORDABLE, HIGHLY EFFECTIVE, PROVEN, ENVIRONMENTALLY GREEN, FAST, INCONSPICOUS OPERATION, and simply the BEST way to deal with Bed Bug Infestations.

KNOCKOUT PEST CONTROL has been dealing with RESIDENTIAL Bed Bug and COMMERCIAL Bed Bug problems for years and we have earned a reputation of being the Champions for dealing with exterminating the most difficult Bed Bug infestation problems. So, if you have Bed Bug issues in a building or property you own or manage… a single home, multiple dwelling, high rise, rental, condo, or cooperative… in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, or the Bronx… then don’t wait. Call me now at 1.800.244.7378. And don’t worry if you’re on Long Island, (Nassau & Suffolk), or in Westchester or Rockland Counties… KNOCKOUT PEST CONTROL services Residential and Commercial properties there too. So call. Be compliant. Avoid fines. And together, let’s win this war against Bed Bugs!

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