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Termite inspection & WDI report
A licensed inspection and a clear written report on the industry-standard form — scheduled around your closing date, not ours. For buyers, sellers, refinances, and the agents keeping all three on schedule.
Who needs a WDI inspection
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Home buyers
Many lenders require a WDI report before closing — VA loans nearly always. Beyond the requirement, it’s the only look you get at the structure’s termite history before the house is yours.
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Home sellers
A clean report in hand before listing removes the most common wood-destroying surprise from your closing. If there is an issue, you find out on your timeline — with room to correct it — not ten days before closing.
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Refinancing homeowners
Refinance underwriting can require the same WDI documentation as a purchase. We schedule around your lender’s deadline, in the format underwriters expect.
What the inspection covers
This is a structural pest inspection, not a walk-through — worked methodically through the places wood-destroying insects actually live:
- Foundation walls, exterior grade line, and every visible wood-to-soil contact
- Crawl space or basement: sill plates, band boards, joists, subfloor, piers
- Garage framing, door jambs, and slab expansion joints
- Attic access, exposed rafters, and roofline wood
- Decks, porches, fences attached to the structure, and stored wood against the home
- Evidence review: live insects, mud tubes, damaged wood, frass, shed wings, prior treatment
- Conducive conditions — moisture, wood debris, grade issues — documented for correction
Findings go into a written report on the industry-standard WDI form (NPMA-33 or the form your state and lender require), covering termites and other wood-destroying insects. What we find is what we report — a clearance letter from us means the structure earned it.
Delivered on your closing timeline
Real-estate inspections are deadline work, and we treat them that way. Tell us your closing date when you book and we schedule to it; the report follows promptly — ask when you book and we’ll commit to a delivery date that works for your closing.
If the inspection turns something up, the report says precisely what, where, and how severe — with photos — so buyer, seller, and lender negotiate from facts, not fear. See our termite control service for how we treat, and when termites swarm in your state.
Agents: get your client’s WDI letter fast
You have a closing date; we have licensed inspectors in 13 markets. One call books it, we coordinate access with the listing side or occupant, and the report goes to the parties you name — you’ll know when it’s scheduled and when it’s delivered.
- Scheduling built around the contract timeline, vacant properties included
- Industry-standard WDI reporting lenders and underwriters recognize
- Straight findings that hold up on both sides of the table
- A local branch and a real person to call, in every market
Work transactions regularly? Call (888) 605-4101 and ask for the branch nearest your listings — repeat agents get the same local team every time.
Termite inspection questions, answered straight
What is a WDI report (termite letter)?
A Wood-Destroying Insect report — the “termite letter” — is a licensed inspector’s written findings on termites and other wood-destroying insects in a home: live activity, previous damage, prior treatment, and conducive conditions, on the industry-standard form used in real estate transactions.
Who needs a termite inspection?
Home buyers (many lenders — VA loans especially — require a WDI report before closing), sellers who want the question cleared before it stalls a contract, and refinancing homeowners whose lender asks for one. Outside a transaction, any home that’s never been inspected benefits from a baseline.
What does the inspection cover?
A licensed inspector examines the accessible structure — foundation, crawl space or basement, sills and joists, garage, attic access, grade line, decks and wood-to-soil contacts — for live insects, mud tubes, damaged wood, frass, shed wings, prior treatment, and conducive conditions like moisture.
How fast can you deliver the report?
Real-estate timelines are the point — tell us your closing date and we schedule to it. Reports are delivered promptly after the inspection; ask when you book and we’ll commit to a date that works for your closing.
Does a WDI inspection include treatment?
No — the inspection and report stand on their own. If we do find activity or damage, we explain what we found, what it means for the transaction, and what a correction would involve — in writing, so every party can decide clearly.
Do you inspect homes that are under contract but vacant?
Yes — vacant listings are routine. Coordinate access through your agent; we schedule with whoever holds the keys and deliver the report to the parties you designate.
Our service guarantee
Unlimited free re-services, same or next day. If covered pests come back between visits, so do we — the same or next day, at no additional charge, as many times as it takes. That promise is in writing on every service report.
100% money-back guarantee. If we've been out three times for free re-services and your covered problem still isn't solved, we refund your last service payment. Clear terms, in writing.
The Web-Free Guarantee®. If we see a spider web on your home, we knock it down — every visit, every home. It's a small thing that tells you how the big things get done.
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