What to Do After Discovering Bed Bugs in Your Rental Home?

One morning you wake up with itching and irritation on a red and swollen area on your skin, it’s a bed bug bite. A bed bug is a small, oval-shaped parasitic insect that feeds on your blood. These pesky insects varying from 1 to 7 millimeters sneak into your bed, sofa, chair or any other furniture item and attack when it gets dark. Good news, bed bugs do not cause some serious health issue. However, itching can cause skin infection around the bite. Common places where bed bugs can be found are hotels, hospitals, military barracks, business office, homeless shelters, apartment complexes and college dorms.

Who Is Responsible For Bed Bugs In A Rental Home?

If you are experiencing symptoms of bed bug bite (itching and irritation on and around a swollen red area on the skin), check curtain folds, look under the bed sheet, and check between cushions of the couches. After discovering bed bugs, immediately inform the landlord or the property manager. It is the responsibility of the manager or the landlord to provide you with a pest free home. However, bed bugs can also travel with you in your backpack.

Four Ways to Enlighten Your Rental Space Having Limited Light

If you are a tenant, then ample light must be listed on your wish list when you are looking for a rental space. A little addition to the existing lighting can make your limited rental area appear more spacious and open. When you move in a rental property where natural light is less than the ideal, the existing artificial lighting is of poor quality and the most of the electrical energy is poured down the drain due to conversion to heat energy instead of light, you have to pay more for less.

Here are some of the ways to enlighten a rental space with limited light:

Use natural light

You can take advantage of natural light. No matter what is the size or shape of windows, leave them open. Maximize the exposed space of all windows. Almost all houses available for rent have curtains and blinds on windows. These curtains and blinds are adjustable to control the privacy and amount of light coming from windows and doors.

Wall lights

White or light-colored wall lights can work wonders in illuminating the rental space and make it appear large. Wall lights can also amplify the natural light coming from windows and doors. In addition to this, these lights can also serve the purpose of a décor by adding personality and style in the rental space.