3 April 2004
false alarm
Evidently in getting my previous heads-up about termites fourth-hand (as it was) meant that some of the information got a little scrambled. As it turns out, we have not to worry about termites, but in fact the house we are pursuing has been infested with the carcasses of carpenter ants. At least, that's how the buyer's agent described it from the report. I suppose some sort of weight has been lifted.