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Originally Posted by banjobob
........I'm reasonably sure most homes in The Villages have seen roaches in their homes at one time or another
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Exactly.
In the house I sold before moving here, I had maybe seen 3 or 4 of them in 10 years. I was very pleased with the pest service, as they were very thorough, but this is Florida after all so there will always be a few.
So fast forward to the last day in that house.
Everything had been moved out, a high-priced cleaning service had been over it from top to bottom and I have worked my way from each room, touching up anything not perfect and making everything sparkle. During this entire time, not a single bug, much less a cockroach, had been seen.
I was doing this just hours before the new owners were making a last inspection, the day before signing the papers.
After loading my car with all of the cleaning supplies, and knowing there was no reason to worry, I decided to make one last inspection anyway.
So I opened the door from the garage into the washer dryer room and there in the middle of the floor,
where I had just been less than 10 minutes earlier...lay a dead roach on its back!!
How in the heck it had crawled to the middle of the room and just died belly up, in the 10 minutes I was gone, is still a mystery to me.
All I could think of was
"what if the new owners had opened the door, seen that one damned roach and cancelled the sale?"
It's funny now, but I certainly wasn't laughing at the time.
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Originally Posted by banjobob
...palmetto bugs?
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I know, right?
When I first moved to Florida, I cracked up at the naïveté of those who think you can mitigate the nastiness of cockroaches by giving them an innocuous, almost cute, sounding name.
