I used to do maintenance at a couple medium sized hotels, get a big bag of DE (diatomaceous earth) and a squirt bottle thing (usually comes in a kit with the DE if you're getting a bed bug kit) and spray it EVERYWHERE in every nook and cranny (bed, couch, cushions, corners of floors/carpet/walls), also spray in your car, everywhere, make the cops who pull you over think you're a coke dealer with parkinsons.
Run all of your clothes and couch cushion covers ect in HOT water. And dry on HIGH heat. Bed bugs don't deal well with heat, granted your clothes may shrink...
I've spoken to many pest control people (guests will bring them in) we take a nuke everything/salted earth approach to confirmed reports of bedbugs. They will usually hide near wherever they are going to feed. So bed, couch, etc, anywhere you might be sitting for a long period of time.
They normally don't move from wherever they set up their home (a particular corner of the bed frame etc) until they get crowded out.
Depending on which side your neighbor is, line the common wall with DE as a precaution, also if you do share a common wall with her unit, get those outlet/switch cover gaskets and install them under the coverplates. (I woulnd't spray DE into the outlet boxes, DE itself isn't conductive, but it will pull moisture out of the air, and become conductive overtime).
Air leakage around your receptacle is causing condensation & mold growth. You might want to try these to help air-seal the receptacle, but the other question is how so much air is getting through? Perhaps you have a massive air leak in your attic or basement/crawlspace and it is manifesting itself through your hall outlets? You may want to smoke out the air leak(s) with a fog machine - on a really hot or cold day, when the indoor/outdoor temperature delta is highest.
I hate fragrances too. My coway seems to work in the house, but I generally don't use scented products. Since you are in an apartment, you might also try a door sweep for the front door, and these insulators for your outlets - I think they make them for switch plates too.
There are few brands available and most big box home stores or hardware stores would carry them:
https://www.amazon.com/Duck-Sealers-Variety-Decorative-283333/dp/B0040JH21W/
Duck Brand Socket Sealers Variety Pack, 16 Outlet Sealers and 6 Switch Plates, 2 Decorative Covers, White, 283333 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040JH21W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_Z7GWXMX595P2DSRBAP50
Duck Brand Socket Sealers Variety Pack, 16 Outlet Sealers and 6 Switch Plates, 2 Decorative Covers, White, 283333 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040JH21W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_QZWEANGX57HXFG04KH3P
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