It's not bad luck — it's your zip code. Hoopeston sits in a humid continental climate with hot, humid summers, cold and often harsh winters, and significant lake-effect influence near Lake Michigan. This region has some genuinely old urban housing stock paired with decades of ongoing suburban growth. That's exactly what carpenter ants, stink bugs, Norway rats, house mice, German cockroaches, and subterranean termites need to get inside. Waiting won't fix it. It just gives them more time to spread.
A one-size-fits-all spray doesn't cut it here. A blend of dense urban multi-family buildings and single-family suburban homes, nearly all with basements given the region's cold winters. So before we write a treatment plan, we inspect first. Water, tree cover, open land, building age — it all factors in. You get a real diagnosis, not a guess.