Roaches, roaches, and more ROACHES! I lived in one of their buildings for about seven months before calling it quits. I saw the first roach crawling across my living room floor exactly three weeks after moving in. After reporting the issue, while the maintenance department responded promptly, it took about three weeks for their pest control vendor to come treat the apartment for the first time, in which time I saw a few more.
When the vendor called regarding the appointment, he asked me what size the roaches were, and if I had seen any small ones. At that point, I hadn't seen any small ones. However, when I got home from work that same day, there was a small one on my kitchen counter, so I called him back to inform him of that. He replied that it didn't make a difference, they were still going to treat the apartment with a gel bait. Why would he have asked the question in the first place, if it didn't make a difference?
When the pest control technician (the owner of the pest control company's brother) came to treat the apartment, he was clearly in a rush. He put gel bait in cabinets, behind the stove and refrigerator, and along wall/door frames, without attempting to determine where they were coming from. If I hadn't slowed him down by asking questions, he would have been in and out in under five minutes. He was also slightly condescending, and suggested that I might have brought them in with me in a box of fruit or something, then implied that roaches are unavoidable, by saying that it was getting warmer (it was May 13th), so roaches would be out more. To me, this was a big indication that they had not, and would not appropriately treat the apartment. I've lived in multiple apartment buildings, one for nine years, and never had this issue.
Anyway, after that first treatment, and me duct tapping any of the cracks/holes that I could see around the apartment, I didn't see roaches for almost two months. Then all hell broke loose. Over the next three and a half months, I saw approximately 150 roaches, up until I moved out. Over the course of this time, P.A.C. did send maintenance to try to seal up cracks/holes throughout the apartment, but the apartment was FULL of them, and it was on me to get on my hands and knees to try to find every little (or some quite large) one. Pest control also came back during this time, but nothing they did seemed to work.
During one appointment, the tech (company owner) told me that they had not treated the neighboring units yet, but would eventually do that if just treating my apartment didn't work. I'm not a roach or pest expert, but I suspect that you can't get rid of an infestation by treating just one unit.
As far as my communications with PAC staff and maintenance are concerned, they were all pleasant. Their maintenance requests are all submitted online, and are typically replied to/scheduled pretty promptly, except for the roach ones, that is. Two of my complaints about the the roaches were completely ignored. I suspect, at least in part, because they are fully aware of the issue in the building, and have not (as of about two months ago) been successful in resolving it.
It is quite time consuming to pack and avoid taking any with you. Not to mention, quite expensive. Save yourself the hassle. read more