Is anyone else having the same problem with fleas as I currently am??

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Just as I was blowing my nose on 9/2/2011, I found a flea trapped among the nasty stuff on the tissue, and that's just one of my multiple problems with fleas. Last time it was cockroaches, and I was fed up with them and had to vacuum-trap the pests and flushed them down the toilet until the exterminator came in 2009. Now there's a new infestation in both my houses: THOSE DAMN FLEAS!!! We've had an infestation of them since July and ever since then my arms were pockmarked with flea bites, leaving shiny scar circles on my right arm, and a few on my left. That was in my MOM's house. I've also had a problem them in my apartment, my second home and I talked to the assistant landlord about it. Showed her my scars right after another tenant said he had his own problem with vermin. At first I thought they were bedbugs because they've been biting my ankles and almost fell ill from them, but when pest control and the main boss of the apartment came to my room, I showed them the trap I found out below and concluded that they were fleas instead. Mom got some insect spray, but it's not enough since they can fly or jump. So I got some all-natural flea killer and some anti-itch cream for my skin. I got so many bumps on my arms and legs people can read braille on them, and they're almost visible! I JUST WANTED THESE F****NG FLEAS GONE!!! Fortunately, afterwards I heard from mom that there was a trick one of my older sisters tried after she learned of it on the internet. The lightbulb-and-soapy-water trick is when I deshade a lamp and leave a lightbulb exposed brightly, and fill up a pan, pot or bowl with hot water and any type of soap, including dishwashing detergent. Place the soapy water under the lamp, and since those damn fleas are stupid they'll jump or fly towards the lamp and into the water. I tried it and placed 1 or 2 pans near a lamp turned on, and the next few hours, there were a hell of a lot of those little f****rs drowned dead in the water since the soap trapped them in the water unable to escape. Serves all of them right. Tried them in both places and I even got the occasional fly in the soapwater traps. Nonetheless, the traps worked! Later on, last month mom bombed the house with a fog of some type of flea killer and the number of fleas are starting to dwindle. As of last week, my apartment's soapwater traps caught 2 fleas, the living room soapwater traps in my mom's house caught up to 28 of those pests, and my regular room at the same place caught 10 to 15 of them. Now that my skin's recovering from the bumps thanks to some doctor-prescribed skin cream for those bumps, is anyone else here also having a problem with fleas? I'm sure you got a whole lot of flea bites as I do.