It's a nightmare indeed! And let me tell you from personal experience that you can spend vast sums of money on exterminators, throw away furniture, burn clothing, scrub and clean for weeks, and end up with a bedbug-free existence .... for a few weeks or several months, tops. Then one day, you'll see another one. And you'll be scrambling, again.

If you work really hard, you can keep them at bay. But getting rid of them to the point that they'll never come back? That's much, much, much, much more difficult ... If it's even possible.