I arrived on Wednesday October 26th for my two week stay with my wife and her mother. I used to live in Woodside, Queens, NY before I moved to Brazil ( wife is from Brazil ) so I left our bags in my brothers apartment nearby and we went shopping. Dennis sent me a text so I said we could check in at 5pm. When we arrived he kept us waiting for an hour. My wife, Juliana, is pregnant so we sat in Starbucks until he was finally ready.
I will start off by saying that I have photos, videos and a report from the exterminator, Terminix, to corroborate everything I say about the bedbug infestation throughout the entire building.
We finally met Dennis and he charged us $20 for the apartment key and showed us around. We moved in and the next day we each had a few ithcy bites of unknown origin ( could have been spiders etc). I took pictures ( don't know if I can upload them on Airbnb). By the way, during this process, I tried to complain to Airbnb but they are unresponsive.
Each day, it got worse. More and more bites. I knew it was bedbugs but Dennis came and looked around ( pointless, they hide very well) and he changed the sheets. I couldn't move to a hotel because there were no vacancies. I got a free examination from Terminix and ( in front of Dennis ) they found the bedbugs. I found a live one just before they arrived ( have picture) which they confirmed was a well fed bedbug. ( Well fed on our blood) They told Dennis it would take $1000 to exterminate the apartment. I knew then that he knew beforehand about the infestation and didn't care. He threw us to the wolves ( bedbugs