Lease cancellation question

By silverfish infested renter

I recently moved into a new community that markets itself as the newest in luxury living and "offering unparalleled services".  Here is my experience.  On move in day, my first impression was already tarnished because when I arrived at my new apartment, it was dirty and had not been clean.  The previous residents razor was still sitting on the tub so that should paint a picture.  I went back to the office and told the manager and she said she didn’t have time to look at it that week.  I cleaned it myself.  I thought, ok, no one will clean it like I can so that is what I did.  Figured once it is cleaned I am good to go, this I can fix.  Then as night fall approaches I am seeing insects coming out of the light fixtures, and the kitchen light is full of them.  I thought they were dead until I saw them moving around.  I turn in my move in inspection form and note the insect problem.  I hear nothing from staff.  I call and leave a message about needing extermination services and I don’t get a return call.  I go on the apartment website and send email, I get no response.  In the middle of all of this lack of communication from the staff, I google "how to get rid of Silver Fish" and l then invest in boric acid for behind appliances closets and cabinets as well as spray entire apartment with Ortho.  I go into the office to again ask for help with this problem and to share a possible solution.  Out of frustration, I called  a property manager friend of mine and she tells me that the apartment community has to treat the attic or they will continue to return to my apartment and she told me how her apartment community rid themselves and their resident’s apartments of these insects.  The Assistant Manager says "great, if you have a solution we are wanting to know" so I send her an email with the details from property manager friend, which is what I promised I’d do.  Now, again I get no communication or feedback after email and last night at 2 and 4 in the morning, my smoke alarms went off, waking me up.  They did churp or beep, as they would do when batteries are low, just sounded like the apartment was on fire.  This had happened on another night as well, however the sound was so loud and scared me out of a dead sleep, the first time it happened, I did not know what it was!  I call the office and ask them if they changed the batteries before I moved in and do these smoke detectors randomly go off-Is there anything going on to cause this?  She says she will check with maintenance and let me know if they know of any problems.  I express my concern that I fear something is wrong with them.  i am waiting for a call back.  In the mean time I google about what causes smoke alarms to go off if it is not a low battery and find a website about it.  This website (fire and safety site) states that if the alarms occurs at night it is usually due to insect activity.  The lease here has a cancelation fee attached to it and my question is, can I fight this fee if I cancel  my lease and move out because it is effecting my quality of life?  Their brochure states; "home should always be a retreat from the heavy beat of the daily huslte and bustle" and "The Village at Quail Springs provides a place of peace and simplicity" and "The Village at Quail Springs satisfies the highest demands of daily living with all the comforts and conveniences a relaxed resort styled community is designed to provide".

This is the worst apartment experience I have ever had, I can’t sleep because I know that even with me spraying, the bugs are slithering around all night and now interferring with the smoke alarms, so if I actually fall asleep, the alarms wakes me up.  I appreciate any advice you can give me, please.  I am a reasonable person and it’s not like I’m not trying to solve this problem but they need to meet me half way and it just does not seem like they will.

Thank you!

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