Termite Tales - Raleigh NC Real Estate

Funny or interesting stories now, but not then, all because they did not get 'complete' home inspection. I worked with a young family man who was renting, and want to buy his first home
and invest in Cary Real Estate with the Kaspar Team as his guide, was ready for inspections after selecting his dream home on a good side lot near Cary, N.C. Long and short of this tale, the home had a detached garage, located about 20 feet behind and to the right of the home.

Came time for the Termite Inspection, and this buyer did not want to play extra for the detached garage inspection fee. The Cary home termite inspection was clean...no termites or evidence of past termites with those mud tunnels which are the tell tail sign.

I saw him about 15 months later in a grocery store, and he told me this story: "I went outside one morning to start the car, ready to head to work. Threw up the garage door like always, and the entire front of the garage fell in on the car!" The termites had eaten out the inside of the 2x4s and 2x6s over the years, and all that was left over time was a hollow paper thin shell. Imagine his surprise and shock, when he reached down for the handle with a cup of coffee in one hand, and a manly yank from the other. Then in a flash, he took down the door and then entire front of the garage!

Had we found them in the garage, before the closing, the seller would have had to not only fix the garage but treat the effected area. Otherwise, we would not have had to buy the home, and could get our earnest money refunded, and go on to another home in the Cary area to buy.

Moral of the story, always pay a little extra for inspection of all wooden structures and don't skimp on any inspections!

Termites are dumb little bugs which are under ground everywhere in North Carolina, and see your home and garage as a smorgasbord of delightful goodies, and if you drive them out of the house, maybe, just maybe, they will take up a dinner tray in the garage.

So whether you are looking for Apex NC real estate, Cary NC real estate or Raleigh NC Real Estate, contact Vic Kaspar, and the Kaspar Team http://www.kasparteam.com/ for more info. Remember it is Vic KaspAr (not Vic KaspEr).