Hello,
My GF and I have just moved to a great apartment in Brooklyn. The apartment we dealt directly with a broker who was related to the owner of the building. The apartment's full address is something like 33-35 Fake Name Street but was advertised solely as 35 Fake Name Street. cinema hd
We took the apartment on the spot, as it was in an amazing location for a reasonable price. A few weeks later, it seems as though one isolated bug bite happened in the middle of the night. Fast forward a few weeks after that and it started to be a more common occurrence, but generally the number of bites was low.
We assumed the worst and took the precautions of vacuuming, laying down mechanical insecticide. We previously checked the apartment in the Bed Bug Registry under 35 Fake Name Street, which it was advertised as. Now we checked the Bed Bug Registry for 33 Fake Name Street and we found reports for this location with the most recent being February 2013. We did not have any bed bug info disclosed to us, which is required my NYC law. And we told this to them and they said they didn't know (bullshit) and of course would work with us right away to resolve this.
They have monthly exterminator coming to spray any apartment that asks for it (no charge obviously). Furthermore we have an exterminator who genuinely seems to actually give a shit, who has sprayed our apartment no charge and whom we can make routine appointments with.
(Now for the legal questions part...)
Should things unfortunately not get better, despite all our efforts, do we have any recourse? They're cooperating thus far and have not been unresponsive, we obviously haven't had to pay for any treatments. Is this something that would be grounds for us getting a full security deposit refund if we try and break the lease due to bed bugs? Moving in NYC is obviously very expensive and to think that all our belongings could be potential hazards to move with us to the next place is obviously an insanely worrying thing to think about.
Any help is appreciated.