03-12-2012, 01:09 PM
It's standard to have an annual bond (aka contract) for termite protection. Big dump of chemicals every 10 years or so ($$$), then the same company comes out and inspects annually in between. The annual fee in the off-years is generally around $100. It'll be pretty hard (if not impossible) to re-sell a house that doesn't have a current termite bond.
The usual deal is, if you keep up the contract, the company remains on the hook for repairing any termite damage that pops up in between treatments... but read the fine print. I had one bozo promise a bunch of stuff that was explicitly not covered in the actual contract (which went in the trash, along with the sales dork's card, after I read it).
The usual deal is, if you keep up the contract, the company remains on the hook for repairing any termite damage that pops up in between treatments... but read the fine print. I had one bozo promise a bunch of stuff that was explicitly not covered in the actual contract (which went in the trash, along with the sales dork's card, after I read it).