Drama Queen, I haven't had roaches here in this house, apart from one or two that shook loose from a bag of potatoes or onions. And they were big waterbug roaches, not these little, quick German cockroaches. (I do have plenty of brown recluses, however. But I will take those over cockroaches any day.)
You know those houses they show on TV once in while, with piles of garbage, pizza boxes, soda cans, dirty laundry a foot thick on the floor? THAT was how the kid lived, in an apartment complex that probably had its share of roaches before he ever started creating Roach Utopia.
When I was in college, in Southern Illinois, I lived for a while in house that had been a typical single family dwelling, 2 bedrooms up, two on the main floor, with a full basement. The landlord converted it into two apartments upstairs, the main floor held us four girls, and the basement had 3 students living in it.
Needless to say, the whole place crawled with roaches, no matter how often the landlord came around with his sprayer--they were entombed in the frost in the freezer, in the oven, behind the curtains--eeeechhh.
On a brighter note, I have put the little roach traps out everywhere, and have only seen one roach since, and it was not very lively. I hope the problem is solved.