Is it bed bugs?
Signs of bed bugs
Where to look, in what order, and why bites are not evidence.
Why Grand Rapids ranks
Three Orkin lists, read for what they measure.
Choosing a treatment
Heat versus chemical
The manual’s own pros-and-cons table, with the one line that decides most jobs.
How heat works
Probes, the hold from the coldest sensor, the log.
Resistance and foggers
Why Michigan samples were “highly resistant” and bug bombs “ARE NOT effective.”
Cost estimator
The reference figures we quote against, and what moves the number.
How they got in
Used furniture and moving
The sofa, the mattress, the truck, and who pays when it was yours.
After travel
MSU’s laundry figures and a luggage routine that uses them.
Shared walls and neighbors
When the source is next door: above, below, beside and across the hall.
Renting
Notice to your landlord
A letter built on MCL 125.474, 554.139 and the city code, with the sentence that makes notice matter.
Michigan law, quoted
No bed bug statute; the Housing Law, the lease covenant, the bills that died.
The city code
IPMC 309 as adopted, and the rental certificate.
Outside the city
Kent County’s regulation flips the default.
For landlords
The state manual’s treatment agreement and the building service built on it.
Before and after
Preparing for treatment
MSU’s chemical list and the shorter heat list.
Encasements and interceptors
The two cheap tools, what MSU says about one of them, and what we say about the other.
After treatment
Four reasons treatments fail and the two-week rule.
Service area
City, county and the Ottawa edge, with the right office for each.