Q “I am the superintendent of a Manhattan cooperative. One shareholder's apartment has bed bugs and the board had done the right thing by paying the exterminator bills as this is no time to be having an argument as to who is responsible to pay. However, six months later and three different companies—including two of the major players in the industry—the bed bugs remain.”

So my questions are:

1.Who is legally responsible to foot the cost?

2. As the shareholder still resides here and their apartment is still fully furnished, in my point of view it will be very difficult to treat this apartment correctly. What is the legal route to take here? Can the board force the shareholder to move their belongings out to a fumigation holding facility, and who pays for that?

3. The building does not have full control (yet they are paying) over how extensive a treatment is given as the shareholder lives there and they are making decisions and choices as what to throw away and what to keep etc. What is the legal standpoint here?

-Frustrated Super