If you live on a ground floor apartment: do you get bugs?

WinkOsmosis

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Are you paranoid? There are ants, but I leave them alone, because they clean up crumbs and stuff.
 

nick1985

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i live in the basement of my house when im home from college. i have quite a few lady bugs and boxelders, not anything to call pest control for though.
 

Zee

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Originally posted by: nick1985
i live in the basement of my house when im home from college. i have quite a few lady bugs and boxelders, not anything to call pest control for though.

i livein the ground floor. I get a couple of mice too.
 

Nocturnal

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I live on the ground floor of a three story house and yes I do get bugs. I saw a fat centipide the other day. I also saw a small baby scorpion.
 

mpitts

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I have lived on the ground, 2nd, and top floors of apartment complexes, and inevitably I have found bugs. We had ants badly in our top floor apartment a few years back.
 

zixxer

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grr I don't know what to do...

There is a bottom floor available where I will have NO neighbors... noone around me at all, only one apartment above me. that's great since I can have friends over without fear of bothering people.

Or I can get a 2nd+ level and have to be quiet all the time, bleh.
 

waggy

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oh man.

i had a ground floor apartment while in college. It was nasty! we had ants, roaches and other things. No matter how clean we kept that place we couldnt keep them away.


After that i never got a ground floor apartment. the next year we moved to a 3rd floor one and never seen a bug. well except for the occasional spider.
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: waggy
oh man.

i had a ground floor apartment while in college. It was nasty! we had ants, roaches and other things. No matter how clean we kept that place we couldnt keep them away.


After that i never got a ground floor apartment. the next year we moved to a 3rd floor one and never seen a bug. well except for the occasional spider.
ahem..

They don't stick around if there aren't things for them to eat. :p
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: waggy
oh man.

i had a ground floor apartment while in college. It was nasty! we had ants, roaches and other things. No matter how clean we kept that place we couldnt keep them away.


After that i never got a ground floor apartment. the next year we moved to a 3rd floor one and never seen a bug. well except for the occasional spider.
ahem..

They don't stick around if there aren't things for them to eat. :p

yeah but in a apartment complex (crappy one at that! glad im out of college heh!) they still come out even i fyou keep it clean.
 

tm37

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If you live in an apartment and have ants or roaches ju7st bug bomb about once every two months. The bugs will move into your neighbors house.

I lived in a nasty place in Pacific beach and When we moved in we had roaches. I bombed and we were the one roach free apt in the complex.

I have repeated this in every apt I have lived in.