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I received a bed set from Rent A Center. Less than two weeks i was being bit by bed bugs.

The manager show great concern but the insurance company feels like my pain and suffering is only worth 1,000 dollars. When my house is under extermination for three weeks. We are mentally exhausted and traumatized about the fact a bug was on my face and body sucking my blood. Me and my daughter was bit.

I have three girls and they are afriad to sleep in their beds due to rent a center.

I should not have experienced this through someone else carelessness now im suffering physically and mentally. This is only the beginning!!!!!

Monetary Loss: $2.

Location: Alexandria, Virginia

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Guest

do u live in fulton,ny cause there is a out break i kniw 4 housing complects with e2 to to 4 apartment in each buliding i am freinds with 1 land who the tentant moved and sent bed and washer back to rac and said nothig then moved and left most of *** in apartment and never told landlor so they spred to all other 2 apartments nice dirty ppl half town dirty

Guest

I am so glad I read all these comments. I have been looking for a new bed and couch for a little while now and I thought I should look at rent a center stuff and I found all this.

When I see that a law firm is takin on a bunch of clients due to how many ppl have gotten bed bugs I'd rather get cheaper furniture and risk it falling apart than having to worry about something that all of u are dealing with.

Thank u for sharing your stories and I'm sorry u guys are dealing with all of this. :(

Guest

I to am dealing with bed bugs thanks to rental depot and they are *** holes about it I cant get any one to help me I cant afford to pay to get red of them I don't know what to do my mom is sick I have 2 grandkids and my son and his wife are exp. we cant let a new baby come home to this if anyone knows who or how to help me I need it

Guest

I am now experiencing the same problem and my house is infested by them because of a rentacenter couch.

My son has health problems and we have to stay out of the house but, the difference is with us the insurance company will not pay for them.

Guest

And for the record bedbugs does not and I repeat come frame being dirty!

Guest

People need to understand and know that bed bugs are at a highest I have ever seen. Now to be honest when you buy a bed from my experience buy a brand new mattress set now I have been dealing with renta center for years and the reason is because we have some type of bad credit!

Now it was an unfortunate about the bed bugs but let me give you a quick lesson about them it only takes one and they do travel you have to watch out someone came to me house next thing you know I had infestation. I'm sorry that happen to you and you daughter I had the same problem but I didn't know what to look for now I do!

I love renta center with bad credit they treat me like I have an 800. Beacon score!!!!

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-686941

your *** and a smart *** you really sound like to me you work for them if you really felt bad you wouldn't of posted this heap of *** on here

Guest

Rent One Plus - same thing. Bought a bunk bed, bed bugs found in the bunk bed wood and mattress.

Rent One Plus said they inspect their furniture, when it comes back but do not do any type of disinfecting to prevent bed bugs. They also do not disinfect their trucks carrying their furniture.

They are not paying for the house to get a heat treatment to clear the house of bed bugs. Stay clear of these furniture rental companies.

Guest

I had an exterminator out at my house right mow that said bed bug eggs are harder to kill then the adults and nyphs/baby bed bugs, and that it takes two to two and a half weeks for the cycle to start over. It makes total sense for the furniture ro come into the home seeming harmless then becoming an infestation a few weeks later!

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-364132

other than heat or freezing, you cannot kill bedbug eggs ....

Guest

I have these pests now as well and I feel so taken in. They offer the 90 days same as cash deal and when you are buying something that costs 500 dollars and find out that if you pay over longer than 90 days it will be double what would you do?

You pay it off as soon as you can! I was comforted that I paid for the year guarantee.

I called them and they said since it is our property now they can do nothing, and the warranty only pays for mechanical failure (recliner doesn't recline etc) and after only 4 months of use, the couch cushions are coming apart badly making the infestation so bad on one I can't see saving it. Beware to check your furniture and warranty statements carefully and don't be another victim!!!

Guest

Only a complete *** would rent a bed !

Guest

Wow....what a surprise. Your email made me cry. I too am ASHAMED AND HUMILIATED. Can't go to work.....can't go out with my friends. Nobody will even ride in my car!!! my library books are infested. Poor Phoenix Library. We are not priority only people that these greedy people can manipulate. After all, we need credit and mostly likely most of us are Blue Collar workers and can't afford litigation. (I WAS a school teacher....do I really won't to teach again and give my children that are entrusted to me BEDBUGS????) I think not. I'm a Veteran and I go to the VA and eggs are hatching out of my clothes and are crawling all over me. (HOW EMBARRASSING...I USED TO WORK AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND THESE PEOPLE (my fellow veterans ) ARE MY COMBAT BUDDIES AT ARMS!!!! Pity RAC when the VA doe's and investigation. They are aware and have appointed me a VA attorney. My entire house is infested over a simple rental of a bed. The most insulting thing of all? They sent me a coupon good for 130.00 dollars over a purchase over a bed.....from Renta A Center!!!! Can you believe it???? Bring a bed into my bedbug infested house? I've been sleeping on the floor for a year. The secret is...spay the entire room with rubbing alcohol and they die instantly...

Doesn't get the eggs hence the bugs hatching off my clothing. (The VA has me on steroids for my rash due to bedbugs) Long story short....they ADMITTED that they cause me bedbugs AND gave me a refund for the bed and delivered FOGGERS not once but twice. They sent in Truly Nolen...he said it's the WORST INFESTION THAT they ever saw.

They are coming out of my light sockets, crawling down my walls I dig holes in my skin, they come out of my hair in the shower not to mention my poor animals. (if bedbugs can't get humans they go for animals including my bird)

We are going national with this....Health Dept., You Tube (I have a really nice video of the devastation) as well as Truly Nolen claiming it's the worst they have ever seen!!!!

The saddest part of all....it's become the norm to ISOLATE (HAVE NO FRIENDS ANYMORE ) AND SPAY ALCOHOL EVERY NIGHT.

I DON'T HAVE A LIFE ANYMORE BECAUSE OF RENTACENTER.

Guest

Speaking of GRAMMAR, you could have at least spelled the word GRAMMAR correctly, if you are going to attack someone's GRAMMAR! LOLOLOLOLOL

Guest

2 things make the complaint possible: 1. bedbugs typically feed every 7-14 days.

2.

There is not always a reaction to the first bites, and some people have no reaction at all.

Bedbugs have nothing to do with cleanliness. They're hitchhikers and will travel with people/furniture.

Guest

so sad... i came here to find answers and all you guys do is disrespect eachother.

i got furniture from rent a center and got bit here and there over some months. since it was mosquito season i didnt think anything of it. but since winter came and me and my 4 yr old were still getting bumbs i decided to get inspected. turned out my apartment was clean except they found bed bug eggs in my couch but no live bed bugs.

does not mean they were not in the couch. im also 7 months pregnant with lots of brand new baby clothes that need to be re washed along with all my clothes and blankets for treatment. prep for this treatment is intense and being pregnant its a pain. i want compensation!

and just to let some of you know...

you dont have to be dirty to get them. all it takes is a hitch hiker!

Guest

i bought bed room set from renta center and within weeks i was being bitten i did not link the two because first i was told i had hive by my primay and then after months of goung crazy worry about every thing i eat i finally saw one and started two link how after just getting the bed set i started to have bits all over my arms i was mess and even today i wont go to movies anywher i here bedbugs keem me *** away i had my apartment exterminated 8 times and my ordeal is finally over it and epidemic no more stuff from renta center southern blivd bronx ny

Guest

Our law firm is investigating This EXACT complaint against RAC Now! call 305-372-****

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-198549

We moved to Jonesboro, AR have been here a month. We have a apartment but had no furniture.

We got a living room set and a bedroom set from RAC my partner is getting Social Security and I have not found a job yet so money is very tight. I woke with bits after about a week had no idea what was going on. The next night there was plenty more. I looked it up on the net and found my bits and learned where to look for the bugs.

After the fourth night I discovered them on the mattress in the corner. I called RAC. They came out and sprayed alcohol and took the mattress and box spring replacing it with a new one. The next day I decided I wanted the whole set gone and they replaced it and sprayed again.

I am not sure this is over. But we left the plastic on the mattress set.

We had to wash the bedding several times cause I could not afford to throw it away we did throw away the pillows and of course now doing with out them until we can afford to replace them. I would like to be included it you are looking at a law suit.

Guest

if i understand your letter correctly, which is difficult because of your poor grammar, the bed bugs started to *** you within two weeks of you receiving the bedroom furniture. This suggests that the furniture was fine when you received it and someone in your family brought them in with them. Otherwise you would have gotten bitten right away.

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