PLEASE HELP!!!

Hi, I have a major issue right now... well this issue is regarding the roaches in my apartment... I had already ask the landlord to fumigate the apartment and they have many times ( just mine though) unfortunetly they keep on coiming back but only this time.. MORE!!! I have pictures its gotten so bad that I even had to go to the ER because a roach went inside my ear at night while I was sleeping.. I have the patient release forms to prove + the medication that they gave me.. and one of them is VIOCADIN.. thats how bad my ear was hurting and this incident just happen after Thanksgiving.. My daughter has asthma and I want to know what I can do... this has got to come to an end. I want some legal advise A.S.A.P

[OHlandlord]

I'm not an attorney, only a LL. But this would be your best course of action. Write a letter to your LL requesting extermination for the *ENTIRE* building. (It has to be the whole building, or they just run next door until the spray dissipates, and then return.) Cite the number of times that this problem has continued and dates if you can. Ask him to send you a written reply telling you when the extermination will take place within 10 days. Send this letter to him by Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, and keep a copy for yourself. Then call the Board of Health for your city and request an inspection of your unit for the bugs.

Sending the letter to him this way verifies that you made the request, that he got it, that his is to reply to it, and verifies a previous (on-going) problem. If he does not respond or does not exterminate the entire building, the health department may be able to cite him for health reasons and force him to do so. If the building is under HUD or Section 8 assistance, send a copy to them as well.

If he still does not respond appropriately, you may be able to have a court order him to exterminate the building or to break your lease and move.