I used them for a termite inspection when I was buying my house. Very thorough and didn't try to upsell me on anything. My realtor actually recommended them. Might be worth giving them a call for your ant issue.

Wait, 28 kids scraped the cheese off?? That is wild. I cannot believe a whole class of seventh graders turned on a pretzel like that, scraping it down to nothing and then asking where the real bread was. Kids that age usually eat anything you put in front of them, so for all of them to gang up on it means that pretzel must have been straight up sad. You saved $18 and paid for it with 28 disappointed faces, that is a rough trade.

Ha, well I'm the guy who bought in 2019 too so clearly I'm the wrong person to ask since I'm basically you in this story. The thing nobody tells you is that a house is not an investment, it's a place to live that also happens to eat every spare dollar you have. New roof, water heater dies, property taxes go up, and suddenly that 38k down payment feels like it bought you a second job. Your buddy's studio probably sucks to live in but his money is liquid and he can move wherever he wants whenever he wants. That said, my mortgage payment is locked in while his rent keeps climbing every year, so ask me again in ten years and maybe I'll have a better answer.