If you're someone planning to move into this area from somewhere considerably far away... be advised Wood Roaches are an incredibly invasive thing in this area!! We had no idea about these until it was too late!! I'd make sure whatever house you're moving into is fully fumigated prior to move in, to ensure a clean slate, so to speak!! We've had our rental company send someone out, but they only spayed the perimeter of the outside of the house and along baseboards inside... I'm quite certain they live UNDER our kitchen floor and no amount of big spray etc seems to get rid of them! I'm not sure about anyone else, but roaches (of any variety) just really aren't an acceptable thing to me!! There was absolutely NO warning about these things either! If anyone has any suggestions on diminishing these things, please feel free to share!!
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We're in the same boat! My mother in law told me before moving here that we needed to get a bug guy scheduled to come regularly but didn't say anything else about it. I didn't take her too seriously because she has opinions about EVERYTHING. When we moved into our house everything was fine for about 6 months. We didn't even have spiders. No bug guy needed. Then we had a bunch of trees removed. I woke up one night to my worst nightmare. Only thing that has worked for us was having the exterminator come out monthly for a few months and sprinkling diatomaceous earth in places we've seen them and we know the kids can't reach. Now we have the exterminator out quarterly and we rarely see any.