How does everyone get rid of roaches?

You can’t just spray one unit. You have to treat all attached units then your problem will be solved. Try bait versus spray and switch because they can get immune.

How do you organize for the adjacent units to be sprayed and have the residents comply? Our residents will refuse entry and our occupancy is so low, lease violations aren't even an option. Not to mention that with evictions halted, residents see lease violations as a joke right now.

Post a notice on each door you'll be treating & mention that compliance is mandatory and refusing treatment/denying entry will not be tolerated. Send a burly/scary maintenance guy with the exterminator to enforce it.

You can still file for evictions under lease violations. We just did one for a hold-over with an expired lease and non-renewed. Went to court, was granted judgement and gave resident until 16th to vacate OR proceed with WRIT on 17th. He also filed for CDC, btw.

From what I’ve learned over the years, you can’t treat just 1 unit. You have to treat the whole building. Otherwise, they’ll just migrate to different units inside that building.

Boric acid

Make sure your using the correct product with the egg developer then re treat again after 7days the eggs will hatch

I agree with the ladies above and what I’ve found to be effective was Vyper treatments. Legit smells like a corpse, but you’ll see immediate effects. The main thing to help aid the Vyper treatment is cleaning the unit of the dead ones every 1-2 days. The appliances should be pulled out, cleaned under and behind daily since roaches feed on each other.

Seven Dust worked better than anything I ever used.

Might be an infestation caused by a roach hitch hiking when someone moved in. Consider treating the entire building.

Max force is awesome

Invict
It’s a gel
Works wonders!!!

Have entire building inspected and treated. There's a nest somewhere girl. Good luck!

Spray all adjoining units, Change out appliances and clean, if there are any dead roach carcasses they will be drawn to return and feed off of carcasses of thier own. They can be found in recessed light panels, ontop of cupboards, anywhere really. Good luck.

In addition to treating the entire building, the affected apartments MUST be kept free of dead roaches and roach poop because the live ones will eat both. #thingsIwishIdidntknow

Clean weekly with this solution
1/2 water
1/2 vinegar
3 drops on dish soap
Clean everything with this plus what everyone else stated. All Apts have to do this.

I learned that spraying an apartment, most likely just makes them go into the next connected unit. If it’s an infestation, better to treat the whole building at the same time.

For roaches and bedbugs, you HAVE to treat the entire building.
My sister is a PM and when she took over a building they had a roach problem. It took months because you have to keep treating and retreating for quite some time. Residents don’t have a choice, they need to comply. So you’ll probably want to issue notices.
It’s no different than if the roof were falling in and you needed to make repairs. You have to make the building habitable. You have to treat the problem.

Powdered fire ant killer put into a jug warm water stinks got awful they’ll be gone in a few days

All of that ^ and then Our pest control company recommended moth crystals. (Not balls) put them in the walls and cracks during make ready and seal it. The smell pushes them away. Also works on mice and rats.

Advion roach gel bait. My old maintenance had been doing maintenance for 20 years and his mind was blown! It’s on Amazon for like $20.00!

Best thing ever is tempo u can get a gebos I promise it works make sure u spray behind all appliances especially the fridge they like heat I had unit infested here is a pic of just a sample and tempo works.
Any tractors supply store sales tempo gebos is here local sorry

The underrated answers are (1) eliminate water leaks and drips, (2) seal cracks and holes everywhere (around switch plates, baseboard, cabinets, countertops, etc), and (3) insist residents remove open food sources.
And then, yes, all the baits, bombs and poisons.

I would check to make sure there isn't an issue in the surrounding apartments. Then I would do a bomb every two week, and make sure you vacuum the roaches up daily. As soon as a female dies, she releases an egg sack. Heat Treatment only works with Bed bugs from my understanding, otherwise we would not have them here in Phoenix in the summer! I use Wagner Pest Control in Phoenix, and he is amazing. Make sure you are having them bate too. A spray just sends them away. It doesn't really kill them.

Cockroaches are invited guests. You just need to determine who is hosting them. Treat the entire building. Bill back the culprit, and yes it is legal to bill people for inviting roaches into your building.

Sounds like a whole building issue. Might have to treat inside the walls. Had this issue in a building of 8 units. Mandatory letters went out and got the whole building under control in less than a month and 2 full treatments including dusting the walls inside.

Make sure you pull all the drawers out in the kitchen to make sure no food fell behind the cabinets because if their is still food source it will be hard to get rid of them all together. Use bait so they take it back to their nesting area.

Pull out appliances. They hide in the dishwasher panel and I’m that vent on the back of the fridge. If it’s terrible pull the carpet and spray under the baseboards. We found a great spray from a local outdoor store that smells like hot dog poop but works great. Don’t fully remember the name of it. It’s two packages you mix together in a pump spray container. One mixture kills on contact. The other stops the eggs from becoming adults.

I use a professional pest control company and always use the method corral and kill. Before you treat the infested apartment you treat all the walls of adjoining apartments then the infested one. And do the same for the re treat that will be necessary to ensure you get them all

Diatomaceous earth. Works for roaches, fleas, BB's, ants and almost every creeping critter and its all natural!
btw you can get it at any pool supply store, Lowes, Home Depot, most farm and ranch stores and maybe even wal mart

Do you know if someone in the building is the unsanitary one? If they don’t clean up, it’s going to continue to cause problems. They are coming back because there is a food source somewhere.

It’s going to take quite a while for it to clean up. I would also do a 24hr notice to enter and check your units. This should be telling if you have any hoarders.

Ask them about wall injectors and you may need to do a building walk too

Have the residents clean with pine sol they don’t like the pine smell. I worked at a place that was absolutely infested. We paid to have some apartments that connected cleaned to help. It takes a LONG time and lots of inspections

Our residents sign instructions from pest control and we go over them in detail. Most people don’t understand that the dead roaches must be removed from the apartment. It takes lots of communication and follow up.

Boric acid. Roach away. Follow the directions.
I don’t put it where anyone can get to it. It goes under the sinks way back by the pipes. Behind the fridge. Behind the stove. Never on the carpet.

We do actisol treatment for roaches . Works great

Bait every unit regularly, repair any leaks, send demands to nits with housekeeping issues and follow through. It will take some time, but it will go away.

Alternate bait and chemical treatment every other week. Treat all the surrounding units. Have the difficult conversation with residents who have the infestation that the bodies need to be picked up. They are basically just food for the others.

Every other week is not going to combat them. You need to bump your contract up to weekly and go into each unit to dime the source. Until then when someone complains, do the quad of units surrounding them. Fogging units work but is costly. So take inventory of the worst ones and go from there. Dust outlets and bait

In harder situations not getting resolved, we’ve used a drain fog treatment that has worked extremely well several times. Roaches were accessing the food debris left in the pipes. Ask your pest vendor about this option.

Have ur pest control company drill small holes In the kitchen of “the sources” walls and treat inside walls.