So, the thing that they're doing today is pest control, which I'm happy for, on the one hand, because it comes free of charge and we do have a bug problem in the building. However, what has been so upsetting snd cumbersome is that the particular method they use is one whereby they require you to not only move all of your belongings from your kitchen and bathroom cabinets and general area, but also the heavy appliances as well, like your fridge and stove and any other big furniture. They want you to pull it away from your wall so they can get back behind in there, treat the area and exterminate any bugs. This might be all well and good if it weren't for a couple of factors: 1) While I can do a surpising amount of physical activities safely with my heart condition (thank God), one thing I am not recommended to do is heavy lifting and pulling. So, for me, a single woman with a heart condition, moving my stove and fridge and other big furniture away from the wall is just not feasibly safe for me (nor is it for many of the seniors and disabled here). And I've been feeling a lot of stress this week, wondering if I have to try to do this. I did not attempt to do it, and have been hoping this would be sufficient. Even clearing out the kitchen and bathroom area of smaller items, putting all the content in bins in the center of the apartment (per their instructions) has been exhausting, costly and like playing Tetras because my apartment is so small (I had to scramble to make sure everything would fit in its new rearranged place to accommodate the sprayed area). In terms of the supplies this required, I was given virtually no advance warning, they just sprung this expenditure on me and I am on a fixed income with everything already planned for the month generally.
What is also infuriatingly insulting is that you get absolutely no dialogue from management on this. They did not check with me beforehand to even see if I was available to prepare my apartment, cover costs, and then - the final kicker - be gone EVERY Friday for the foreseeable future. Oh, didn't I mention, haha? So, they'll be requiring I do this every Friday morning from here on out with all of my kitchen and bathroom stuff, gone for four hours every time until God knows how many weeks from now. Out of the blue management just informed me, did not ask me or negotiate a schedule with me.
The wondrous cherry ontop is that for all of this hassle and labor of prepping your unit in this way when you are disabled, it is known far and wide among the Rosslyn tenants that THE BUG TREATMENT DOESN'T WORK. It's not an effective chemical treatment which provides a long-term resolution of the pest issue and quickly the bugs return, only for you to have to subject yourself to the regimen again and again.
What you'll love about this predicament is that the whole reason for this hassle is likely the Ghetto Lady because I've heard her complaining about bugs up top and, for what it's worth, in the Underground state, I heard her repeatedly confirm wanting the pest control treatment. Well, that's well and good for her place but it's quite possible that her complaints either purposely or inadvertantly implicated the rest of us neighbors nearby so that management decided to subject us all to the routine. Again, pest control=good, but ineffective pest control that makes demands on my disability, my pocket book, my time and energy with no respect for my own schedule each week=bad.
Definitive THUMBS DOWN.
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