Nice posing - keep them coming :o)

That is crazy.

You know what gets me -- is how people can be so oblivious -- so out-of-touch with their surroundings  -- that they are completely unaware that some poor creature died in their crawl space.

I'm not pointing fingers here, I'm a bit oblivious myself some days ....

Yuck!  but I like it.

I remember crawling around in my crawlspace before we bought our last home.  I looked up at the floor joists and there must have been hundreds of these huge crickets just hanging there upside down looking at us.  I think the bug man said they were king crickets. I made him promise to get rid of them and never to bring it up to my wife.

all of you: I knew, deep down, that all of you real estate professionals would really want to see this one. What is there not to like? 

Cheryl --  People stay as far away from their crawl space as they can. The are usually unaware of most things. Termites eat the structure, they have 2" of standing water, toilet leaks and have no clue. There are times that I take a look or a sniff and do not even want to go in, and I am no wimp at this stuff. I just grit my teeth, get the respirator and go at least until I see something that justifies total surrender and retreat. People just ignore the crawl space. Here is a tip: I will write a blog on it. If you are in a home and see several dehumidifiers running, in my climate at least, beware. People often run them not knowing that the only reason they need them is because the crawl space is a swimming pool. I have some great photos of this I will post. It will be the next installement of Crawl Space Horrors. Stay tuned horror fans.

Hi Steven !

EEEEEk, I could never be a home inspector for precisely this reason. My biggest fear in life is rats. Even though I am a zoologist, I despise the little critters. I think it is the aspect of the diseases they spread and also their innate intelligence and cockiness.

I would be terrified of meeting up with a rabid cat in a crawl space.  Spiders, snakes and the like don't bother me.

You're a very brave man !

Jo 

Jo-anne,

The crawl space is just a smal part of the job at the end. But it can have challenges down there. In this state, the law says we must go down there as paft of the inspection.

We must go down, and we must draw a sketch map of what we see.  We cannot afford to get disoriented and we must be thorough.