Bed Bugs in Montgomery County Hotels, Motels and Apartments

Hotels and motels

The county’s Transient Accommodation Program “provides the licensing and inspection of all Montgomery County hotels and motels”; “Public Health inspects over 7,600 rooms,” and “In 2022, Public Health conducted over 190 inspections in over 75 permitted locations” (937-225-4460). The state rule those inspections sit on is short:

“All bedding used in any hotel must be thoroughly aired, disinfected, and kept clean. No bedding which is infested with vermin or bedbugs shall be used on any bed in any hotel. All floors, carpets, and equipment in hotels, and all walls and ceilings shall be kept in sanitary condition.” (ORC 3731.13)

Our hotel service: scheduled room-by-room inspection, single-room heat with the adjacent rooms checked, same-day response to a guest complaint, and a per-room log the inspection can read. Heat puts a room back in service the next day with nothing on the bedding.

Apartments

• Connected-unit inspection — above, below, both sides — before quoting, because a single treated unit in a row of four is a quarter of the problem.
• Same-day multi-unit treatment; per-unit pricing.
• Turnover heat for vacant units: OSU says bed bugs “can survive up to 70 days without feeding,” so vacancy cures nothing; a documented heated unit is your “fit and habitable” record at move-in.
• Notices on time: 24 hours is presumed reasonable (ORC 5321.04(A)(8)).
• Cooperation record where a tenant refuses access (5321.05(B)).