My house was on a Massey contract when I bought it. They gave me an absurd quote to continue, and then threatened to dig up and remove all the termite bait boxes if I didn't. I pointed out that they didn't own those boxes and I would consider it trespassing and vandalism. I also mentioned that Florida is a "stand your ground" state. I haven't been bothered by a Massey salesmen since.
I spent some time looking for a reasonable termite company to treat the house with something real like Termidore, for a reasonable $150, like the guy who treated my house and two outbuildings in the country in Texas, the year before we moved. Closest I could get was $800, so I looked around and noticed that I was living in a concrete house in the middle of a giant housing project, where every home around me had been treated to death for termites for the past 20 years. I decided to just risk it.
In Texas, pre-treating isn't even code, and that house had never been treated for termites in the 23 years it had been standing there. And yet, I could turn over a shovel anywhere in the yard and find termites. But the only reason I had to call a termite guy was that I stupidly believed that concrete siding was termite-proof, and I had left it in contact with the ground when I'd closed off a garage door opening on one of the outbuildings. Total damage before I noticed the swarm the next spring? One stud.
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