Ok a little background. I live in an apartment with my fiance. We moved in about a year ago. The first night we moved in, the kitchen was SWARMING with german cockroaches. Not just 5 or 6…I’m talking 20-30, easily. We told the landlord and she did not act surprised. She came up to our apartment and put down a bunch of powder. This had no effect. I bugged her for three months until she finally caved and called an exterminator. The day the exterminator came, he put gel in the cupboards which I think was a deterrent, not a bait. I came home from work that day and didn’t see a roach for about 8 months.

The other night, the roaches came back, ten fold. Babies, adults, zooming around on our counters, kitchen floor, and a couple in the bathroom. We are very clean people. We bleach the kitchen at least twice a week, there is no food out on the counters, no crumbs, nothing. Dishes all clean and put away. I told the superintendent and she came up and gave me Max Force bait. I put it everywhere. Cupboards, in crevices, all over the kitchen. Last night, the roaches were out in even greater numbers and it doesn’t look like any of them took the bait.

The superintendent will not call the exterminator. She says because it would be the second visit, I would have to pay for it this time.

I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. What should I do? I can’t afford to pay for the exterminator to come, but I do pay $870 monthly for rent, should I not be provided with a clean living environment in exchange? How do I get the building to pay for the pest control?
Moving is not an option right now, unfortunately.