Do not rent an apartment from Plus Properties at 109 S. Boulevard. It is the only building that I know of that David doesn't own. The owner will screw you over. The building has been infested with bed bugs, and they used chemical pesticides to exterminate, which is completely ineffective. I feel sorry for future tenants in the apartment I was in, because chances are you will get bed bugs, and they probably will not inform you. Bed bug eggs can live over a year, and can survive chemical pesticides. They will also stick you with the bill of ineffectively exterminating them, and they do not use the only method that works -- Cryonite. Bed bugs are a huge problem all over Richmond and northern Virginia right now, and I promise you do not want to deal with them. They are a huge inconvenience and are expensive to deal with not even counting the treatment. I spent $2000 on new furniture, and they took almost a month to begin exterminating, so my new sofas became infested in the meantime. An exterminator who knew what they were doing (not Loyal Termite and Pest Control) would have used Cryonite on my sofas and mattress as well. However, Loyal simply sprayed the baseboards and behind wallpaper trim (which the landlord was asked to remove by Loyal and he did not), which did little to eliminate the bugs. And, on top of that, my cat threw up several times a day until moving into a new place. What a disaster! You have been warned!
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