This was a question I have been asking for about a year now and from all those who I have asked, there are several different answers:
1 - When people are evicted, they often do not take their beds with them, so the landlords just dump them on the curb and I guess the sanitation department comes and picks them up.
2 - When people are moving, mattresses are the most common thing that does not get transported, so the owner of the mattress dumps it on the side of the road, again, waiting for the sanitation department to come and pick it up.
3 - This is one that I heard which I will share for all the conspiracy theorists out there, though let me preface, I have no idea if this is true or not. In order for WHEDA to put money into our neighborhood, there are a series of guidelines that must be met as it relates to crime and upkeep. The drug dealers dump furniture out onto our curbs in an effort to keep WHEDA out. Actually, I heard it is not the drug dealers, but rather the drug dealer's drug dealers. Could there be truth to that? I don't know, this is just what I have heard. In my opinion, there are much easier ways to keep WHEDA out of our neighborhood if that was the goal.
4 - Bed bugs are still a problem out here in the community. There are some landlords out here that do not really make an effort to maintain sanitary living conditions and angry tenants will throw their bug infested mattress anywhere to get rid of it. If it is thrown in an inappropriate place, the landlord may move it to the street curb.
The last one is confirmed to be true - one of my neighbors down the street has been trying to resolve a bed bugs problem for about a year now. The landlord is unresponsive. He was so mad, he threw his mattress out the window onto the courtyard. Eventually, it likely ended up on the street side.
I can't complain about the city being my landlord - they do a great job with maintaining things here. I am thankful for that, because I think if my landlord was unresponsive to any bug problems in my home, I am liable to do something just as drastic with my mattress.
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I have had bed bugs for a year and I have lost clothes, furniture and I have had to go to the doctor and pay hundreds of dollars in co-pays for all the times I got sick because of the bed bugs. My landlord does not do anything about it. My clothes are expensive as I have to wear suits to work, and I can't afford to replace all my suits every month. That is why I am moving out of Allied so I can live somewhere where landlords give a shit about their tenants who pay rent every month on time. My neighbors all have the same problem, but they are all afraid to complain to the landlord because he tries to intimidate the tenants, but he can't intimidate me. I'll just leave when the lease is up.
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