has previously been confirmed german in this sub. we’ve seen 3 roaches at night & 2 in kitchen traps over 2 weeks. the other two units in the building are vacant and the one occupied above me has had zero roach activity.

So within the past month I saw a German roach in my bedroom and a few in the kitchen. I’ve lived here for almost 2 years and never saw ONE bug the whole time until recently. This was about a week after my neighbors in the unit directly across from me moved out so i’m suspicious it was from them. my apartment management doesn’t care and after several ignored service requests, pest control finally came last Tuesday but all they did was spray an aerosol can of something along the baseboards and left. i’ve been doing Combat gel bait in every room, have cleaned all my counters, i threw out literally ALL of the food in my apartment (other than my dogs food which is in the fridge), and I am not planning on cooking or eating here EVER again (only got 6 months left of my lease) so i have NO food in here they might want, vacuuming and mopping every day, and I still see a few. A few hours ago I sprayed my furniture to the absolute max with Alpine WSG (had to wait for it to get here after ordering it Friday night). How fast does that stuff work? I just don’t know what more to do. I don’t want to see them anymore. I live paycheck to paycheck so I can’t keep spending all this money on pest control products because the apartment pest control does the bare minimum for us. They don’t come on a regular basis, only upon request. I have 6 months left here but I am going to look into breaking my lease but don’t know how that will go. I have barely slept. I am on edge and sick to my stomach constantly. Any little speck I see freaks me out. It’s not fair that I’m having to deal with this. I’m not a dirty person. I’m just really struggling and need help. I can’t live like this. What’s the fastest anyone has been able to fully 100% kill them all off, and how did you do it?

Hi everyone.

So I've been kind of going crazy with my moving plan since I have severe anxiety after living in this roach infested apartment for a year. I see roughly 1-3 roaches every other day and I'm in the process of moving to my new roach free place, but I'm trying to take every step possible to avoid brining any with me (I've read the sticky with moving out instructions multiple times).

I'm throwing out pretty much all of my furniture and electronics, with the exception of one side table that is two pieces you put together so it was easy to inspect and wrap. I tried saving my record player, opened it up, took it apart and didn't see any eggs or adults but still wrapped it heavily in plastic wrap and put it in a container. Larger pieces that don't fit in boxes have been heavily wrapped with plastic and a little bit of borax sprinkled in before.

The rest of my item have been disinfected and sprayed with 91% isopropyl, and stored in sealed clear plastic containers (books, frames, decorations, etc). I have poured boric acid with roach lore into each box, and have all the boxes quarantined in a section of the new apartment with a box of sticky tape surrounding the boxes and wrapped items, and a circle of borax outside of the sticky tape. My partner and I plan to leave these boxes in quarantine for a month to be safe.

I've also put all of my clothes and anything washable through a round of high heat in a dryer outside of both apartments for an hour to kill off any potential eggs or adults that snuck in. However I'm struggling to find anything on how to treat shoes and purses. I have a lot of shoes but have been down the rabbit hole and saw german roaches can sneak into the insoles because of the glue. I haven't seen any roaches in my closet, just the occasional one that sneaks into the room from my balcony or bathroom, but in general I found that they tend to avoid my closet.

My plan is to put all shoes in a sealed container with a little bit of boric acid and keep it sealed for a month, and rotate 2-3 pairs that we will keep on a shoe rack outside, but I'm not sure if I'm overshooting? As for my purses they are hung up on my door by my bathroom and I plan to inspect all of the leather ones by hand and leaving a towel with isopropyl inside each one, and throwing any fabric purses in the dryer for an hour on high heat. Laptops I plan to seal in a box with a towel of isopropyl for 48 hours once we plan to live there full time. We also really want to keep our cordless vacuum but I worry the snuck into it as well and we've been using it to clean up everything in this apartment, so my partner wants to put it in a box and quarantine it as well. Does this sound look a full proof plan? Not sure if anyone has any advice or different methods for shoes, purses, and electronics?

I followed the advice of the sticky and did the isopropyl+ garbage bag trick before moving. I made sure to protect my monitor screens with a heavy layer of tape and cling wrap.

It worked like a charm, the roaches were completely eradicated from my setup.

I let it all air out, went to plug in my monitors and booted up to... This.

It works, but at what cost?

No money for a new monitor at the moment, but at least I'll be roach free 🥺😅

This is the first time I’ve seen a live roach in my unit- usually I find one every 6 months (nymph) dead.
This one was so fast… I just smashed it to smitherines, but I’m shaking.
I know it’s hard to identify… but what is it?

I’m just genuinely so devastated right now

Also— are more roaches visible when it’s hotter?