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Hello.
Since Dec 2007, my wife and I rent a small 1BR house owned by a landlady who lives next-door. Last week, we were horrified to discover carpet beetles appearing all over the house. We are clean individuals who maintain the house well and have never had any pest trouble in any of our houses. We contacted a professional exterminator who confirmed that the apartment was well-maintained by us. The house is an old one and the source of contamination seems to be some old carpets and decaying wood underneath in one of our closets. We were advised to get fumigation done over the course of 1 year to get rid of the eggs.
All through this, the landlady has been extremely un-cooperative and insists that we deal with the problem. Our rental agreement does not state anything about pest control and we do not want to deal with the worms, especially when the landlady is rude and uncooperative.
My question are:
1. What do we need to do to terminate our agreement (we have a 1-year lease) and move out?
2. Is there any way of making sure that we are not sued by the landlady?
3. How do we get back the deposit from her?

We are international students and your help is much appreciated/ Thank you...