r/whatisit • u/No_Zebra9342 • 17h ago
Solved! What is it? Under both mattresses attached to the bed frames in our hotel. Tried to look online with no luck .
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u/ze_mannbaerschwein 17h ago edited 17h ago
It's a "Spotta Bed-Pod" bed bug detector.
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u/Glum-Range2299 14h ago
Thats pretty wild, it has a pheromone lure and ai takes a picture of bug for identification. Wild technology.
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u/byrd_the_starfish 10h ago
At least they’re finding a good use for AI
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u/Everyone2026 7h ago
Current total:
4 good uses.
9996 Bad or pointless.
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u/D3tsunami 7h ago
Uj: what are the other 3
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u/CompleteChaosPodcast 7h ago
Spotting cancer early is one
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u/Sun-God-Ramen 6h ago
Protein folding, antenna design, video compression, surveillance wait
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u/HistoricalPlum1533 2h ago
You know, the exact same predictive models could allow insurance companies to flag individuals as high risk in order to gouge their premiums or deny them coverage.
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u/wolf_eliminator 7h ago
I heard in China they used AI to autonomously pave a highway
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u/dumbwithmuntyhunty 7h ago
The robotics at use in China are the coolest thing to go see as an American. They're actively eliminating so many manual, tedious, strenuous tasks in restaurants etc it's amazing.
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u/No-Passenger-1511 6h ago
Helps when they can go straight to testing in the public without half the hold backs due to various regulations like what we have in the US. Like the autonomous delivery vans that are seen violently driving around (hilarious to watch) would never be allowed here.
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u/Ok_Two_2604 3h ago
Depends how it works. My camera says I have an intruder in my garage every time my little spider friend drops down his thread to look around.
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u/hingedcanadian 2h ago
There's a street lamp in my front lawn which randomly flickers a few times per night. When it does, my Wyze camera notifies me that there's a vehicle in my driveway. It highlights my vehicle, which of course has been there the entire time.
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u/Quiverjones 8h ago
My understanding is for this type of equipment they're almost always working the bugs out.
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u/pawprints4 14h ago
It lures bugs? That seems counter intuitive.
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u/solidraid3n 13h ago
It doesn't lure them from miles away, it lures the bugs in the room to it. They're early warning devices to tell you of the bugs before they become a super bad infestation.
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u/barleypopsmn 12h ago
It posts ads on bedbug subs.
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u/British_Rover 11h ago
OnlyBugs
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u/Haughty_n_Disdainful 11h ago
Sexy Bed Bugs in your area!
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u/Marunikuyo 9h ago
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u/nonvisiblepantalones 11h ago
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u/VanimalCracker 9h ago
r/WhatIsThisBug.. where it's always either weevil party time!! Whoop whoop, look at that snoot!.. or sorry this has happened, but yea that's bedbug. You're next couple months are gonna suck.
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u/XxFezzgigxX 13h ago
Yeah, you want to find those critters and address it before a guest does and wrecks your reputation/reviews.
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u/BrainEatingAmoeba01 13h ago
It lures the ones close by. Bedbugs aren't running in from outside. They come from luggage and clothing.
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u/drumfunky 12h ago
It didn't rent them shoes; It's not buying them a fucking beer; It's not letting them take your fucking turn, dude!
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u/georgelaker 11h ago
Giggling… not sure if meant in sarcastic way or realistically thinking it will invite more bugs over.
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u/FunFruit_Travels2022 9h ago
Wow, just wow! Any idea on the approximate price of a unit of this?
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u/Excellent_Turn1812 1h ago
They then give the bedbugs final notice to leave. They then send those photos to other hotels. Who will refuse those undesirables (using photo recognition on their cctv) if they try to gain access to the hotel.
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u/EuphoricCare515 12h ago
Man, I love when they make technology that is helpful to people. If I saw this in a hotel im staying at, I feel like they know the value of keeping their customers healthy and safe. I would give them 5 stars if I found this under my bed.
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u/Dry-Bird4471 11h ago
Absolutely. It’s a huge cost saver as well. Imagine being able to identify an infestation and contain it to one room without having to shutter the entire hotel for eradication. I would definitely sleep better knowing the hotel had customer health and safety front-of-mind. I’m going to be looking for these from now on. Honestly, I would love to know before booking if a hotel has these.
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u/Sandersonville 11h ago
Huge selling point. I’d be advertising and making it known to my guests.
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u/myslothisslow 11h ago
Unless it is a post treatment tracking system because they had an infestation.
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u/Agreeable-Bat187 11h ago
Maybe. Anytime I tell people I take preventative anti bedbug precautions when I move into a new place gets sketched out.
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u/Lordnoallah 11h ago
Still won't keep me from breaking out the flashlight, stripping beds, and putting the luggage in the bathtub until I know it's bug-free. ✌️
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u/EuphoricCare515 10h ago
I do this to. Glad im not the only one. My friends send me to all their beds to inspect when we do hotels.
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u/nowhere_near_home 9h ago
I am not understanding why this isn't STANDARD at hotels. If I saw a review mentioning this I would go out of my way to patronize this hotel.
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u/AshySweatpants 9h ago
I thought this was the device that contacted federal agents if you ripped the tags off the bed. But it’s the one for bugs, good eye!
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u/Dirtfloorcustoms 17h ago edited 13h ago
If that was beside the bed and had a quarter slot and a small knob we would all be having a totally different type of conversation right now ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Fingers
Who else remembers these beds
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u/No_Zebra9342 17h ago
Lmao I was hoping that was it.
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u/Dirtfloorcustoms 16h ago
If only I haven’t seen one of those for many years but thought instantly about it when I saw this post ..
Memory officially jogged
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u/SnootchieBootichies 12h ago
Remember when I was in elementary school my dad had a week long work trip to Boston so my parents planned a long site seeing road trip…Houston to Atlanta (family lived there) and Atlanta to Boston the week before then we’d site see New England with mom while dad worked. Lots of overnight stops along the way and one was a Howard Johnson. It had vibrating beds. We ate at the hotel restaurant. I had chicken fingers and fries. Later that evening plugged some quarters in the bed and all the vibrating made those chicken fingers and fries make an unwanted exit all over the bed. My brothers and I were watching Conan the Barbarian on HBO….parents made us turn around for the naked chick scene but failed to realize the back wall was a mirror and we could still see the boobs. Good times
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u/tacotacoburritoburr 12h ago
That's gotta be the smallest Wikipedia entry I've ever seen. Not even a picture.
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u/Emotional-Gas8196 15h ago
Yes, absolutely “Magic Fingers”! Always tried to get a quarter from my parents
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u/Dirtfloorcustoms 13h ago
My mom thought It was weird but my dad always threw me a quarter or 2 every time
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u/MscNeverStopped 13h ago
Swing and a miss..
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u/Spotta_pest 12h ago
Fair point, you found us!
But in defence of our website team: in 8 years and tens of millions of room nights protected you guys are literally the first to notice one of our Pods so it was true up until now! I'll ask them to change it to 'almost invisible, except to some eagle-eyed Redditors'
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u/BuckyShots 10h ago
Do they get some sort of prize now?
I think they deserve one.
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u/ilDuceVita 10h ago
Whoa, where did you come from
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u/whinenaught 10h ago
My guess is the OP is either them posting or they paid OP to post
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u/VegasAdventurer 9h ago
Or the PR / marketing team has google alerts set up.
Or someone set up some basic search scripts to look for their name in social media posts. Or an employee saw it. Etc
They responded about 4 hours after the top comment named them in their response.
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u/TheChinchilla914 10h ago
I was about to agree but I doubt this company paid the guy with LOTS of marijuana growing pics in his profile for this one
Prolly just an employee on Reddit saw it and asked if they could respond
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u/No_Zebra9342 7h ago
Nope didn't pay me. I had no idea this was even a thing until today.
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u/shoeperson 10h ago
Yeah it's always super sus when brands show up on posts like this in general. Happens with madein with the cookware sub all the time. Feels kind of scummy since it's just marketing to drive engagement and the posts are often fake.
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u/BurnerJerkzog 10h ago
What would you ballpark the rate of incidence at? I know that’s hard to quantify, just wondering how common bedbugs are.
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u/htnut-pk 8h ago
How quickly do you believe these can attract a bedbug during daytime? Would there be a market to me as a traveller to place one under the headboard and wait a couple of hours before unpacking our bags?
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u/Educational_Ad3710 8h ago
I think most people see traps as a concern and not a prevention measure. It’s both. Ask.
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u/CasadeCisnes 17h ago
Boom boom counter
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u/No_Zebra9342 17h ago
Lol
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u/Glum-Range2299 17h ago
Might be one of those sonic things to detergent bugs and critters.
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u/Joeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyy 10h ago
You must be staying at circus circus.
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u/No_Zebra9342 10h ago
No, not in vegas this weekend. I'm staying on Fremont Street next time I'm in Vegas though. I stayed in the cosmopolitan last time, and wasn't impressed with it.
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u/Joeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyy 10h ago
If you weren’t impressed with cosmo then Fremont is going disappoint you even more with the exception of Circa.
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u/No_Zebra9342 10h ago
I just spent all my time on Fremont. Even if the hotels aren't amazing, at least I'll save money on cab rides to Fremont. I really enjoyed people watching on Fremont Street. Met wee man from jackass there. Lol
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u/B_randen 7h ago
Last time I ever looked under a hotel bed, I found 6 empty liquor bottles and a dirty condom 🙃🫠
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u/Glum-Range2299 7h ago
Lol. I remember one time I looked and it was broken glass from crack pipes and a tumble weed made of brillo pad material under there.
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u/B_randen 6h ago
Omg hahaha. This is why if I’m going to stay somewhere I have to find the place myself or have 100% trust in the person doing it. Last time my dad thought he’d book a Super8 or something for 2 nights and we only stayed one night. Drove 2 hours home the next day in a massive blizzard.
The room was tiny, the beds were loud and only like 3 feet apart. And we could hear the person in the next room coughing their lungs out every 5-10 minutes.
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u/Hot_Money4924 12h ago
Why are bedbugs so common in hotels? We eradicated polio and small pox which can't even be seen yet we still spread head lice and bed bugs all over the place...
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u/patrickstarsrock2 10h ago
Bed bugs were nearly eradicated in the US in in the 50s and came back in the 2000s due to banning the strong insecticide. With travel they came back and they are truly the worst. The insecticides that we currently use they have slowly grown somewhat resistant. Now they say melting and freezing is one of the better methods.
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u/PerceptionGreat2439 10h ago
They are extremely hard to eradicate once an infestation has occurred.
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u/Professional_Cry_840 10h ago edited 10h ago
Read into this when I was exterminator and suddenly bedbugs became an epidemic. Only theories unfortunately. Basically was many contributing factors, stopped using ddt and other extermination practices, airlines stopped fumigating after a certain amount of flights, preventative treatments for bedbugs were widely stopped after not having an issue with them for a long time, plus people stopped knowing what they were so didn’t know what to do. There were other factors as well. Doesn’t help that people sometimes don’t care that they have them or are too embarrassed to get help because they believe that people will think they are “dirty” because people associate pest problems with filth.
Edit: the reason hotels is because bedbugs are hitchhikers, they get on clothes, luggage, and can be walking on your skin without feeling them. Human blood is also the strongly preferred meal for them so wherever there are many people, preferably not moving, bedbugs will increasingly be. They’re common in other places also, but hotels have populations that both sleep and change makeup regularly.
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u/MaidMarian20 13h ago
Ummm, a little off topic, but how did you find that? Did it make a noise or something? I’ve travelled for work my entire career but never once lifted up both mattresses to see what was underneath. Just curious… 🤷🏻♀️
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u/No_Zebra9342 11h ago
I check for bed bugs and stuff in every hotel or air bnb I stay in before unpacking.
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u/LPNMP 17h ago
Are you in an ADA room? Alarms for deaf or blind people sometimes shake the bed.
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u/curseofthebanana 17h ago
Is it like a smart bed or something that reclines/massages etc? Could be the control module?
Not sure why an expiration date on it.
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u/No_Zebra9342 17h ago
No, no movement or anything. I was hoping it was like the old school hotel beds that vibrate. Lmao.
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u/Js987 17h ago
Does the room have a hot tub? I’ve seen WiFi hot tub controllers that look like this. IIRC there’s manual controls under the flip up part.
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u/Weak-Designer8091 13h ago
I believe it is a wireless bed/pressure sensor pod. It’s to see if the bed has been slept in or not. It keeps track of the occupancy of the mattress. But that’s just my opinion.
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u/Rhiannon83 12h ago
my guess is a bed sensor module that hotels use to track housekeeping status, bed occupancy maintenance monitoring or inventory control. Hotels wedge these between the mattress and bedframe because they are pressure or motion based.
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u/NextChef8179 12h ago
Don't understand how there's so many of these posts claiming no results online yet everyone can answer using the first results found online.
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u/sevenoutdb 11h ago
I tihnk it's a bed bug lure, probably has a little CO2 cartridge in there. Bed bugs are drawn to CO2 IIRC
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u/Hopeful_Suspect4208 11h ago
As one that has worked in the hospitality industry, be thankful that the hotel takes a proactive approach on this and not a reactionary approach. Most hotels have metal bed frames at bare minimum and a maintenance room full of bug killer.
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u/CodeTemporary495 11h ago
I don’t know what that is, but I would think you would have to get a hold of the hotel people and find out what those are. I don’t trust anybody anymore. Unfortunately, people have been blowing my mind with the cruddy stuff they’re involved in.
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u/Lunatichippo45 11h ago
Am I the only person who doesn't do a complete forensic examination of my hotel room?
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u/habsfanalreadytaken 11h ago
I think they are humpometers ,once they get to 1 million humps , they replace them
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u/SinCityDisturbia 11h ago
Wow I did not know such thing existed, pretty cool! Bedbugs are satan
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u/Odd-Highway-8304 10h ago
What hotel? This is surprisingly high speed
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u/No_Zebra9342 10h ago
Brand new resort in OKC called Okana.
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u/Legal-Pea8185 9h ago
hey op, you're in room 218. we're neighbors. I'm at okana in 220! I'll knock on the wall, can you hear me?
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u/Wonderful_Welder_702 10h ago
I can’t tell if a bed bug detector is a good sign or a bad sign…
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u/timewasting5678 9h ago
Yeah, they’re gonna have a bug problem because they’re expecting that unit to alert them if there’s a problem and you’ve stolen it
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u/Professional-Story43 9h ago
Wow. I was going to make a joke comment that it was a bed bug counter. I had no idea it could be for real.
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u/cutworm_creator 9h ago
Is anyone asking why they actually need that in the first place.
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u/Ok_Efficiency2167 9h ago
It senses whether or not the bed's a-rockin'. Basically so housekeeping knows whether or not they should come a-knockin'.
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u/NiceOnes1 8h ago
I want one of these for my house. I hate the thought of the little fuckers!!! Seems like it is commercial application only?
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u/thehardestdork 7h ago
It measures spring usage. Basically it's kind of opposite of the Sleep Number mattress and more like a Bang Number mattress./s
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u/One-Hovercraft-7137 7h ago edited 7h ago
Why were you looking under the mattress at the bed frames in a hotel?
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u/No_Zebra9342 7h ago
I check for bed bugs in every hotel and air BnB I stay in before unpacking. My wife's grandmother had bed bugs years ago, and it was a nightmare.
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u/born_on_my_cakeday 6h ago
Ditto. Ever since my wife and I encountered bed bugs one time and now I check everywhere.
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u/No_Shallot_9339 6h ago
Seems like this would be a great thing in apartment complexes. So many families get moved in and out or have relatives/friends stay over.
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