That’s an unbelievable amount of money to unexpectedly invest in a house you’ve only lived in for less than six months. The key lesson here is to really know the house that you’re buying. You should always hire an exterminator on your own to investigate the house, particularly for termtites. (A wood destroying insect inspection should be ordered with your standard structural/mechanical inspection). If you’re going to make such a huge investment in a new home, the small price of precaution is worth it.
The stories continue endlessly.
An adorable five-bedroom house sat on pastoral acreage in the American countryside. At less than $180,000, it seemed a steal. But it wasn’t a bargain. Ben and Amber soon realized the dream home they had purchased for their growing family was infested with hundreds of garter snakes. Throngs of reptiles crawled beneath the outer walls. At night, the young couple said they would lie awake and listen to slithering inside the walls. It was like living in a horror movie. The home was most likely built on a winter snake den, or hibernaculum, where the reptiles gather in large numbers to hibernate. In the spring and summer, the snakes fan out across southeast Idaho, but as the days get shorter and cooler, they return to the den. At the height of the infestation, the home buyer said he killed 42 snakes in one day before he decided he couldn’t do it anymore. He waged war against the snakes and “they won.”
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