NJ and NYC bed bugs infested apartment buildings are becoming a major issue. Financially it seems that the landlords are in a position to get clobbered. NYC law forbids apartment owners from passing the cost of bed bugs extermination to tenants. The New Jersey state legislature is considering similar legislation. It’s not trendy to stick up for apartment owners but when their tenants accidentally or through negligence bring bed bugs into their apartment which spread all over the building it does seem a bit odd to make the landlord pay for a problem he did not create. The apartment owner may actually be a nice guy and a good landlord and deserves some empathy.

Also the landlord might pay out a large sum for bed bug eradication and it doesn’t work or after the treatments are successful someone else brings bed bugs in their apartment unit and the exterminators and the expense are back.

Douglas Stern, the Managing Partner of Stern Environmental, an acknowledged bed bugs expert has written an insightful NJ, NYC bed bugs article about the laws pertaining to NJ, NYC bed bugs, landlords and tenants. It clarifies the NJ and NYC laws and brings up tenant versus landlord bed bugs issues which need to be discussed and debated by NJ and NYC residents and lawmakers.