<p>Please heed ncmentor’s advice about bedbugs!
These are a big problem in the Boston neighborhoods many students live in.
From this week’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood (this is the BU and BC neighborhood) newspaper:
September first is a huge moving day in the neighborhood and plenty of bedbug infested furniture will be placed on the streets presenting a big risk of new infestations! The Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation is seeking volunteers to work with staff from Boston Inspectional Services Department, Boston Public Health Commission, and the CDC to patrol Allston Brighton streets to identify used furniture, place warning stickers on it and call for an immediate pick up</p>
<pre><code> My building spent a year ridding itself of bedbugs, very awful. The bugs hid in picture frames, lamp shades, anything. We had seven apartments worth of stuff we left for garbage during the course of the year and were horrified initially to see people picking it up. Fortunately, with info from the above groups, we learned to deface , cut up, tag and in any way we could ruin the stuff that might look appealing.
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