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Bellingham, Wa. Home Inspector and Critters in the Crawlspace
     As a Bellingham and Blaine, Wa. Home Inspector, and throughout my years as a general contractor, I have encountered quite the assortment of critters in crawlspaces, attics and walls.  It seems that these varmints have as keen an eye for comfortable real estate as we do.  This is above and beyond the usual offenders (ants, beetles, termites, spiders, and rodents). The list is pretty extensive; skunks, possums, snakes, feral cats, wild chickens, bats, raccoons, honeybee hives, assorted birds, squirrels, and more cockroaches than I care to remember about).  I'm sure that there are some that I'm forgetting.  Not the best things you want residing in your home when you're trying to sell it.  Perhaps unless you're prospective buyers are nature lovers.  Although, even the nature lovers took issue with the skunks.  And, invariably, when I run into these critters the homeowner usually has asked me to get rid of them for them.  Even though I am not an exterminator, more often than not I have complied with there wishes.  I guess I'm a sucker for a pleading, frightened, housewife with tears forming in her eyes. Call it a weakness.  Well, there are interesting, and often horrific, stories attached to just ... more

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