Reddit reviews Combat Source Kill Max R2 Large Roach Bait - 1 Box (8 Bait Stations Total)

I also moved from Madison for grad school 2 years ago.

You know the one freak set of 5 days in the Summer where it gets to be in the high 90s and super humid? It feels like that in Tallahasse from mid-May to August. Surprisingly though, I see very few mosquitos compared to the hellhole Wisconsin can be in that regard during the late Summer.

In WI, when rain comes through, it comes in as a long line that approaches your area then continues on in the same direction until it's passed. In Tallahassee, patches of rain appear out of thin air and disappear in different parts of the city. It will be raining on one side of the campus and be sunny on the other side. This happens every day July thru August. You wouldn't be caught in WI without snow boots; you shouldn't be caught here without a good set of rain gear.

Tallahassee is a lot like Madison in sense that it's a smallish city which holds the seat of the state government and a major research university. Life tends to revolve around one or the other. Madison is significantly more quirky than Tallahassee but Tally has its charm if you look hard enough. The airport is regional like Madison, so expect the same limited schedules and high airfare.

Frenchtown is the Allied Drive of Tallahassee. The south side of town is equivalent to Park St. near the Beltline. Railroad Circle is Tally's Willy Street. Unfortunately, there is no State Street equivalent. Also, if you like craft beer, Proof is pretty much the only established local operation(Edit see below, there's Momo's and now Grasslands), so the city is sorely lacking compared to all the breweries that dot around Dane county.

Duval, Bronough, and Monroe are kind of like the University Ave and E Washington of Tallahassee. They get clogged during rush hour as everyone travels to/from downtown. Capital Circle, which loops around the city, has significantly less bumper-to-bumper backups than your typical Beltline rush hour.

For roaches, get some of these, and make sure to replace them on schedule. We rarely see roaches, and then usually only in our garage and only when we forget to put down new traps.

Get to know some outdoor activities that are within 1-1.5 hr drive. I recommend Wakulla Springs, Apalachicola National Forest, and St. George Island.

Like arts & crafts, antiques, and "foodie" restaurants? Try Thomasville, GA 45 mins. across the border. Speaking of the border, you have to go to GA if you want your precious 40 oz bottles of beer. Those aren't allowed for sale in FL. However, liquor stores in FL are open til midnight or 1 as opposed to the 9PM law in WI.

The landlord sounds incredibly shady from what you've described.

California tenant laws place responsibility on the property management to treat uninhabitable conditions. A cockroach infestation is categorized under uninhabitable conditions - they are a symptom of extremely unsanitary living conditions.

Here are a few links - make sure you read through these and know your rights as a tenant, and DOCUMENT EVERYTHING! Take photos of the cockroaches, maybe capture one and keep it as evidence. It is absolutely the responsibility of the landlord to pay for a PROPER and professional exterminator/fumigation service.

1. http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/repairs.shtml
   
   
2. http://www.caltenantlaw.com/Habitability.htm
   
   In the meantime, you can get roach baits, especially the ones where there's poisoned food that the cockroaches bring back to the nest and eliminates the nest from the inside. These are really effective:
   http://www.amazon.com/Combat-Source-Large-Child-Resistant-Stations/dp/B001ACMBJK
   
   It's going to be frustrating, but don't let your landlord or shitty property management company take advantage of you as a tenant. Make sure you know your rights and luckily California usually leans in the favor of the tenant. Good luck!
   
   Edit - I think this is your management company: http://www.yelp.com/biz/pacific-real-estate-and-management-inc-los-angeles
   

I have some bad news and some good news.

The bad news is that if your neighbors are dirty and have roaches there is not much you can do to solve the roach problem. You can ask the landlord to have an exterminator come to your apartment and to spray other apartments but I know you said the landlord is cheap. I understand, I've dealt with it before (both cheap landlords and roach problems, they frequently overlap). You can also hire an exterminator to treat your apartment yourself, but that's probably a waste of money and doesn't really deal with the source of the problem since the roaches aren't coming from your apartment.

So let's focus on what you can do, which is to deal with the roaches that do make it into your apartment. First, the basics:

• Do not leave any food or trash out. Not a crumb. Not a single morsel of meat or grain of rice. No standing water. No dirty dishes. All trash cans must have lids. Take the trash out daily. If you have pets you may want to put their food on a chair or table to feed them and not keep it on the floor.
  
  Ok now to kill some roaches.
  
  
• First things first. Any roaches that come in need to die. You need roach motels. It doesn't have to be this brand. At Dollar General in Texas they are 2 paks for $2, so Amazon is not the cheapest. You can get some version of these at Walmart, Target, whereever. You need to put at least one of these on every shelf in every cabinet in your kitchen and each bathroom. Also in every drawer. Anywhere there is food or water. Put some on the floor too, especially near pet food. As long as you continue to have a roach problem you need to keep buying and putting out these traps. Throw them away when full, obviously. Don't give up.
  
  
• 2nd line of defense: Bait stations. Doesn't have to be this brand, you don't have to get it from amazon. I know you've been using these. You need to use more. Again, every shelf on every cabinet in the kitchen and every bathroom. I'd probably try to replace these once per month.
  
  
• Lastly you should nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.. In this case you are looking for Ortho Max specifically. Do not get some other brand. You can get it at Walmart, Lowe's, Home Depot, Target. Get the biggest one you can find, some have a pump or handheld sprayer, some have a powered sprayer that takes 2 AA batteries in the handle so if you get that one be sure and get batteries with it.
  Spray the baseboards and around the corners of the kitchen and bathrooms and anywhere you have seen roaches. If you have pets you need to keep them away from the spray until it dries, put them in another room for 8 hours or so. If you have the small german roaches (which is probably the case) they like to gather under tables and furniture especially the dining room table. Consider flipping these over and giving them a good spray too.
  
  I know it seems hopeless, and I know you've tried some of this before, but you have to attack on all fronts and keep it up until you get the situation under control. If anything will work this will, but you have to be diligent and stay on top of it. The roach motels are really important to always have them out. You may wind up spending $100 to $200 over time on supplies but your options are that, give up and live in misery, or move. You have to make a decision what is best for you. Good luck with it.
  
  Edit: If you are having an issue with the small german roaches remember they will get inside anything they can, especially electronics. Phones, answering machines, microwaves (keep it spotless), computers, etc. Also drawers if there is a crack to get in. These are good places to put traps and bait near also. If your device is full of bugs and it's not too expensive you may want to replace it, but only do so after the roach problem is under control. Otherwise they'll just infest it again.

Buy a ton of roach bait stations, set them pretty much all over the place, and the roaches should die out in about 1-3 weeks. The poison they eat doesn't kill them right away. When they go back to the nest, they either give the nest the poison or they die from the poison and the nest eats the dead carcass, which ends up killing the entire nest. There are roach bait stations for small roaches and for the big roaches. Buy one or both, whatever you need! You need to replace them every three months.. but once the problem is fixed, you can go a few extra months more before replacing them.

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You can try to get out of the unit, but it will probably just be easier to focus on getting rid of the roaches, it just takes some time if you install roach bait stations. You will probably need a lot all over your home, but it will work. Every time I have a roach problem anywhere I live, these things fix the problem. It's best if the entire building had some in each unit, but even if it's just your unit that has them, eventually the roaches will die out. You could try placing a few of them somewhere outside your unit to kill these motherf*ckers quicker.

I use these to combat the different sized roaches.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KL1LDE/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ACMBJK/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and then I put this stuff all around my house to kill other ants bugs and larva. (its tiny fossils that cuts sticks to and cuts through exoskeletons and dehydrates the bugs and larva. Its good at killing crazy ants etc too)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001THVH9G/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here is the mobile version of your link

I'm not OP, but I've been through similar situations that he/she described. Too poor for an exterminator, extremely bad infestation, nothing worked etc, etc..

But, this shit worked amazingly well. Went from having so many roaches they were hanging out in daylight because there was no more room for them in the walls, to cleaning up piles of dead roaches and never seeing living ones again in a matter of a week. It was amazing.

A few regiments of these, these, and this got my old apartment roach-free. Maybe someone else can recommend better products but these worked great for me.

The solutions you need are as follows -

Mice - A bucket, sunflower seeds and a small piece of wood works for small rodents. The video is for chipmunks but I've successfully used this set-up inside apartments. Set it up at night and every morning you will have caught some mice, repeat till they are gone.

Cockroaches - Put these EVERYWHERE till you don't see anymore roaches.

Problems solved.

Please let me know if these two solution do not remedy your problems within 2-3 weeks (Roaches will take longer to deal with than mice).

We had roaches frequently getting into our home, and couldn't find the entry point to fix it and keep them out. Bought these for $8 bucks and didn't see any again for about 9 months, then replaced them with a new batch and still no roaches. These were a lifesaver, roaches are pure evil.

https://www.amazon.com/Combat-Source-Large-Roach-Count/dp/B001ACMBJK#

I'm not sure bombing will do anything, because the gas can't get into all the cracks and crevices where the bugs hide unless you do the whole tenting thing. When I bought my house, there were cockroaches in it and we couldn't get rid of them forever until I bought these http://www.amazon.com/Combat-Source-Large-Child-Resistant-Stations/dp/B001ACMBJK . They have ones for little bugs too. I put a ton of both everywhere, and now if they aren't gone, they are at least somewhere that I can't see them.

http://www.amazon.com/Combat-Source-Large-Child-Resistant-Stations/dp/B001ACMBJK/ref=sr_1_2?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1393802128&sr=1-2&keywords=roach+killer not sure why no one posted this. It works best in a standalone residence so that dirty neighbors won't reinfect you but I left these in a roach infested trailer and came back a few days later and they were all dead. Even could work in apartments if they are enough of them. I always wonder why lazy landlords don't just put a few of these in each unit yearly. It does work.

I don't keep a dirty house, but every 3-6 months I open a pack of these and chuck them in random spots around the house. an ounce of prevention...


http://www.amazon.com/Combat-Source-Large-Roach-Count/dp/B001ACMBJK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464249202&sr=8-1&keywords=roach+trap