Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs convey?
"Convey" means stay with the real estate. Fixtures are part of the property. Personal property sometimes conveys with the sale of real estate.
Bed Bugs are an issue in Central Ohio. Did you know there is a Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force? Made up of people from the bug industry.
This is the last of a four part series about bed bugs (or is it bedbugs?)
Central Ohio bed bugs... recommendations to REALTORS®
Central Ohio WHO inspects for bed bugs
Bed Bugs are not a sign of poor housekeeping or being poor...look at the ZIP code map on the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force site. Bed Bugs have been treated in some of Central Oho's finest ZIP codes.
Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs stay?
In writing a contract to purchase a home, the buyer tells the seller what stays and what goes. Or what they want. The fridge? The range? Window coverings? The bed bugs? Not so much.... Seller and buyer agree about what stays with the property, "conveys."
Would the sellers bed bugs remain with the real estate or would the seller take his bed bugs with him? I am certainly not talking a particular seller... this is "make believe seller"... with "make believe bed bugs" for illustration purpose only.
Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs convey? 
The seller in most cases would be removing personal property from the home when it is sold. The book cases, TV's, couches, chairs, mattresses, headboards, etc. are moving with the seller to their new home. Anything living in the couches, chairs mattresses etc. would move with the sellers... in most cases what is living in the couches, chairs, mattresses would be dust mites. As unatttractive as those dust mites might be... dust mites are pretty routine... I believe. I am not an entymologist and don't play one on TV or on this blog.... not playing attorney here either... just an itchy blogger... from my understanding dust mites are an organism... much smaller than a cat or a dog... smaller even than a bed bug or a flea... but there is not yet Central Ohio Dust Mite Task Force... the seller is taking his dust mites with anyway... they are in the furniture.
The sellers bed bugs? You might assume any seller would be packing up any bed bugs onto the moving truck too. The bed bugs do NOT convey with the real estate. The buyer does not want the bed bugs to stay.
The bed in bed bugs?
"Though bedbugs are frequently found in mattress seams, they’ll also hide behind draperies, headboards, hanging pictures and dressers as well as in living-room chairs and cracks and crevices in any room, Jones said. “It’s really a misnomer to call them bedbugs.” the quote is from a Columbus Dispatch article by Kathy Lynn Gray titled:
Could some bed bugs stay? Yes.
Central Ohio home sellers disclosure?
It is important that couches, chairs and mattresses be removed from a property when it is sold. Not that the couches, chairs and mattresses have bed bugs... but the purchase contract does have a clause that the sellers personal property has been removed.
Removing all window coverings could become more common in the future. Not that they have bed bugs if the house does not but just to be sure... Window covering are personal property... the rods and attached hardware stay...
If a seller had bed bugs and knew they had bed bugs I would think they would have to disclose that to a buyer. Wouldn't you? There is a residential property disclosure in Ohio.
Personally I think the single family home is the perfect offense (offense as in football... offensive rather than defensive) move against bed bugs. I am no bed bug expert but I believe bedbugs are more common in apartment living...
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