The whole floor and subfloor needing replacing.
The flickering light switches were warning them of the outdated wiring which had to be replaced. In the end, their $10,000 savings only helped to give them a bit of consolation when they paid $27,000 for all of the remodeling! This house was screaming for a Home Inspection! Way too many red flags. Another five-bedroom house sat on pastoral acreage on a horse farm on the market by a For Sale By Owner. At less than $200,000 it seemed a steal! But it wasn’t a bargain. Todd and Ashley soon realized the dream home they had purchased for their growing family was infested with hundreds of garter snakes. Although harmless are surely a pest. 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 the fields but as the days get shorter and cooler, they return to the den. The wife was freaked out about the snakes. At the height of the infestation, the home buyer said he killed 42 snakes in one day before he decided they couldn’t do it anymore. He waged war against the snakes and “they won.” Buyers had little recourse when they decided to flee the home. They had signed a document, with a notation stating (or understating) the snake infestation. They said they had been assured by the agent and the previous owner that the snakes were nothing more than a mere inconvenience if you happen to see one.
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