[njbchbum]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

What I'd like to know...

Would it be wise to have a home checked for "insects" and critters such as snakes and such prior to buying........if one bought a gently used resale home.....esp. if it was near a golf course? Meaning : Check for any entry holes or whatever would point to the possibility of a critter being able to get in...........not necessarily that the house is over run with anything.

I've seen news stories about people finding snakes in their laundry rooms (not in The Villages, but in Florida and even up north).........under their beds, etc.

One never knows what could be transported into your home on a moving truck.

When we returned to Vermont back in 1995.......I ordered a new chair for next to the fireplace..........it had only been in the living room for a day when a huge tarantula type spider was spotted. They said it arrived during transport. Double yikes.

I think it came from Georgia.

Better safe than sorry.

that is something that our home inspection included...since it is a manufactured home on a crawl space, you can imagine how pleased i was to find that there were no critters in residence in that crawl space!...a good reassuring feeling. and before we moved in we had a housekeeping team come in and they worked their mops and dust rags off so that even the inside of the kitchen cabinets sparkled!...and then the pesticide guys came and put that paste stuff down in all of the damp kitchen/bath areas as a deterrent barrier and sprayed around the outside of the house. we have been pest free for the 5 yrs we have been there [except for my husband occassionally - but that's for another thread ]