We live in a 3-unit multi-family house, and one of our downstairs neighbors has a confirmed bed bug infestation. Fortunately they haven't gotten into our unit, or the third unit in the house yet - we have had no bites and the pest management people came and did a thorough inspection and did not find any. Because the bugs CAN travel between units, especially when the affected unit is treated, the recommendation is to treat the whole building (which makes sense). They are proposing a "preventative spray" of all the baseboards in our apartment, and then my neighbors get three treatments including a "fogging" followed by two "spraying" treatments over subsequent weeks.
Anyway, my H has done a lot of research and has a TON of doubts about the strategy being proposed by the pest management company. He's asked our landlord to get a second opinion from another company. We have cats AND we've been actively TTC, which makes me doubly concerned about bringing toxic chemicals into our apartment without evidence that it will be beneficial.
So I was wondering if any of you have had bed bug problems, and if so, do you recall the protocol did the pest management people use? Did it work? Any other advice?