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You know, I can see the logic of this from the buyers point of view. Last year bats got into my house and I couldnt get rid of them because I couldnt figure out where they came from. My GF was terrified. She wouldnt leave the bedroom without me around. I certainly would have paid $10-20 (not $80) for an ebook that even hinted at a solution.

I finally arrived at a solution, but backwards. I sealed all the entrances into my house, but I hadn't sealed the bats out, I had sealed them in. For a couple of months, whenever I moved a piece of furniture, I'd uncover another dead bat. Dead bats dont look like dead bats. They look like balls of dust. I had vacuumed up a couple before I realized what they were.

We had exactly the same problem several years ago. We had lots of bats in our attic of our vacation cottage. In an effort to lock them out, we effectively locked them in, and they started coming in to the house through openings from the attic to the main part of the house.

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