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What the letter covers — and what treats it
01
Subterranean termites — the treatment that transfers
Mud tubes on the foundation wall, damaged wood with soil in the galleries. The letter maps the activity to the elevation; the treatment is a liquid barrier trenched and rodded to the label, or a bait station ring where the wells and the creek say so — both warrantied, and the warranty transfers to the buyer at closing without a fee or a phone call.
02
Carpenter ants — moisture’s first responders
Smooth, clean galleries and a frass pile like a tiny sawmill floor — ants excavate wet wood, they do not eat it, so the letter names the nest and the leak that fed it. Treatment is a non-repellent the workers carry home; the cure is the roof boot or the hose bib the map points at, written into the corrective page.
03
Wood-decay fungi — the condition the others ride in on
Cubical rot in the sill, a fruiting body on the joist: decay reads as damage on any report, and it is a moisture problem first. The letter states the moisture reading, the source and the repair scope — a fan, a vent, a graded swale — because treating insects in rotting wood is painting a house in the rain.
04
The old-house file — history, not hysteria
Most homes over sixty in the Creek hills carry a treatment history, and the letter places yours in it: previous damage noted as previous, active activity noted as active, and the difference proven where it can be with a scope into the wall. A clean letter on an old house is a document worth more than the inspection fee, and we write those gladly.
Why ours clear
A letter written to be read by three professions
The lender wants the numbered form; the lawyer wants the state statute quoted beside it; the buyer wants to know what the words mean in plain speech. The Bondletter file is all three at once — the graph map stapled in, photographs at every finding, the moisture readings in a column, and a page of plain-language translation the agent can hand across a kitchen table without a single phone call back to us.
One year, re-inspected free
Every clearance letter carries a year of re-inspection on the crawl we cleared, and every treatment warranty transfers at closing — the buyer inherits the coverage the seller paid for, at no charge, with one signature from us on the page their lawyer sends. In thirty-seven years the letter has never been the reason a deal fell through.
Hour 1
Under the house
The crawl walked end to end in suit and headlamp: sounding every suspect member, moisture at the sills and the wet corner, tubes and frass photographed where they sit, and the graph pad filling with a map the letter will be built on.
Hour 2
The perimeter & the interior
The foundation walked outside — every conduit, crack and wood-to-soil contact noted — and the interior checked at the window sills, the baseboards and the place the floors spring, because the letter that misses the house around the crawl is a letter half written.
Same day
The findings, translated
Damage dated by its character, organisms named, conditions measured — and each finding written twice: once in the numbered language of the form, once in the sentences a buyer reads out loud to a spouse that evening.
Day 2
The letter, issued
Typed, photographed, graph-mapped, quoted if treatment is asked for — delivered by email to whoever the client names, lender included, inside the forty-eight hours the top of this page promises.
At closing
The transfer, signed
Treatment performed with us before the date gets its clearance page; warranties move to the buyer with one signature on the page the lawyer sends, and the file stays open in our cabinet for the next time the house changes hands.
How the letter gets written
From crawl space to closing table
Two hours under the house, two days to the letter, one signature at the close — the same sequence whether the crawl is four feet clear or a boot-scoot on belly boards.
The Creek hills, 2025 — 2026
Letters that closed
The desk, in figures
Our lender rejected the first WDO letter from a bargain inspector for missing the state addendum — two days from closing. Bondletter had a licensed inspector under the house the next morning and an acceptable letter in my inbox the following noon, graph map and photographs included. The buyers used the plain-language page to sleep; the bank used the numbered pages to fund.
The crawl under our 1911 farmhouse frightened me until their inspector walked it with the camera rolling. Old damage, dated and mapped; one active tube at the porch; a treatment plan quoted to the dollar and finished before we moved in. The warranty transferred to us at closing with a single signature — the smoothest thing in the entire purchase.
Two letters from this desk saved more money than they have ever cost: the first caught decay in a sill before the ants did, the second cleared our chapel annex after the ventilation cure. Both read like they were written by someone who expected to be cross-examined — because on the second one, by an insurance adjuster, they were.
Fair questions
Questions from all three sides of the table
The five the desk answers every week — from buyers, sellers and the agents between them.
What is a WDO letter, exactly?
A wood-destroying organism report — in this state the numbered form lenders require before they will fund a house with a crawl space or an attic worth checking. It maps visible evidence of termites, carpenter ants, bees and decay fungi, states conditions like moisture that invite them, and reports previous treatments. It is not a warranty of the whole house; it is a professional reading of the wood at a moment, and ours is written to survive the readers it will meet.
The report found old damage. Is the deal dead?
Almost never — and that is the point of dating damage honestly. Old, dry, abandoned galleries with no activity are history: noted, mapped, and cleared as previous. Lenders read “no active activity, conditions corrected” the way they read a repaired roof. What kills deals is the vague letter that will not say which is which, and vague is the one thing ours is not.
Liquid barrier or bait stations — which do you sell?
Whichever the site argues for, and we write the argument into the treatment page. Barriers trenched and rodded to the label suit most town lots; baits suit wells, creek margins and the hills’ stone, where a continuous trench is a fantasy. The difference in cost is honest and printed, and both carry the same transferring five-year warranty.
Can the seller’s letter really transfer to the buyer?
The treatment warranty does — five years, moving with the deed at closing, one signature, no fee. The clearance letter itself is a snapshot of the day it was written, which is why lenders want it fresh: inside ninety days of closing is the standard window. Our file on the house stays open regardless, so the next inspection starts from the last one instead of from zero.
How soon can you get under the house?
Routine inside the week, rush letters inside forty-eight hours door to door, and a crawl space emergency — a tube crossing a threshold the morning of a walk-through — moves to the front of the day at no premium we would put our name on. The hills keep us busy; the calendar has never yet cost a closing, and it will not start on your file.
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