Real Estate in Barrington & The Northwest Suburbs: A House Full of Bugs in Barrington. Thanks Mr. Home Inspector.

This is almost comical coming on the heels of my last post about not letting dead bugs kill your sale. Well how about live bugs?

This week I attended a home inspection for my buyers on a home in Barrington. We knew that the property needed some work doing before going in with an offer. I highly recommended my buyers have a home inspection amongst other inspections because where there is known work to be done, there is likely unknown work to be done.

It was a hot day and the air conditioning was barely keeping up with the demands of keeping us all cool, our poor inspector was obviously suffering, after all he was working, everyone else was either watching or waiting. During the inspection I overheard a comment about bugs, so went to ask what he had found, curiosity got the better of me.

It seemed that if we opened the windows there were hundreds of bugs in the window jams. He showed me. All I can say is EEW. No matter which window he opened it made hundreds of these nasty looking black bugs scramble for cover. I have no idea what they were but it surely made my skin crawl.

I wonder of these bugs liked the house because it was all wood siding? Or was it because the windows were never opened or cleaned? Whatever it certainly put me off but was not a safety or health issue, or maybe it was. Gil Grissom from CSI comes to mind, he was into bugs and could have helped us out. It was however a problem that any buyer would have to deal with. So would you want to deal with a house that was full of live bugs?

Hoping I am done with bugs for now, we'll talk soon.

Corinne. 847-363-3686.