Orange Studs
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Meant to add, don't be fooled by newer construction. The biggest draw for termites is builders burying scrap wood when they backfill.
And probably half of all leaks are a result of a mistake when the roofing is being applied originally.
7 months, 7 years or 7 decades old, water and insects are indifferent.
I am on my 5th house. I have built a lot of equity over the years by buying and over time that I am there by upgrading the house. Like a home that was building in 72. It was cut up like a 70 home made the rooms and kitchen look smaller. I knocked down walls to open it up. Put hardwoods down, rearrange the kitchen to make it bigger and laid down tile. Made doorways a couple of feet wider going in and out of kitchen and dining room/living room. Fresh paint through out the house. Upgrade the landscape outside and add beautiful flowers and plants. Every home that I have done this to not only sold fast but made a really good profit on the house. Most houses are bought and just lived in over the years with hardly any upgrades made if any. I did most the work hiring just for things I didn't know how to do like putting down hardwoods and putting up new walls. That is just one example and not all homes I bought were that old but that one was a well built home in an established neighborhood that people really wanted to live in.
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