Lebanon’s market runs from Ohio’s most storied small-town core — the Golden Lamb has been hosting guests since 1803, and the surrounding blocks aren’t much younger — out to horse properties and acreage where the deed carries a barn, a run-in shed, and a workshop alongside the house. Both ends change what a WDI inspection needs to be, and ours handles both: $99 flat for the primary structure on the lender-ready NPMA-33, next business day, PDF the day we inspect, pay at booking or on the settlement statement.
What Inspections Actually Find in Lebanon
The historic district produces the deep files: two centuries of timber, treatments, and repairs in homes that predate the termiticide industry entirely, where the report’s job is dating evidence rather than discovering it — the archaeology-versus-active distinction our Lebanon termite work practices daily. The acreage produces a different file: houses in fine shape, but outbuildings that have sat on soil for decades — pole barns with posts in the ground, sheds on skids, tack rooms with hay moisture. Wood-to-soil contact is the whole termite equation, and farm outbuildings are made of it.
Scoping the Horse Property
The NPMA-33 lists exactly which structures were inspected — a barn isn’t automatically included with the house, and a lender financing the whole parcel sometimes wants it to be. On Lebanon’s acreage listings, tell us at booking what’s on the deed and what the lender expects; we scope the inspection to match, quote any additional structures plainly, and the form says precisely what it covers. Buyers of horse properties should want this anyway: the barn is half the reason they’re buying.

Built for the Transaction Timeline
- $99 flat for the primary structure — VA, FHA, conventional-accepted NPMA-33
- Outbuildings scoped and quoted at booking so the form matches the lender’s expectation
- Next business day across Lebanon, Turtlecreek Township, and rural Warren County
- Same-day PDF to every party you name
- Pay now or at closing on the settlement statement

For Agents From the Square to the Township Line
A Lebanon agent’s week can hold an 1830s Federal off the square and a twelve-acre horse setup on the same buyer tour, and the WDI vendor should move between them without a quality change: archaeology-grade language downtown, honest structure-by-structure scoping on acreage, $99 for the house and a same-day PDF on every file. Booking takes one minute at the realtor link — the notes field handles parcel details — and the full rundown lives on the realtor page.
Around the Square and Out the Pikes
Lebanon’s inspection week can span three centuries before Friday. The blocks around the square hold the Federal and Victorian stock whose reports read like provenance documents — and whose buyers, often refugees from bigger markets who came specifically for the history, read them with real attention. The mid-century neighborhoods ringing downtown run the standard postwar file. And out the pikes — toward Turtlecreek, the Route 48 corridor, and the township lines — the acreage listings begin, with their outbuilding scoping questions and their lenders who want the whole parcel documented. Same crew, same form, three different disciplines, switched at each front door.
Warren County’s courthouse traffic adds a steady line of estate and auction sales, where the WDI often lands on a compressed post-auction timeline — another file the next-business-day standard was shaped for.
Estates, Auctions, and Who Pays
Lebanon’s estate files deserve the mechanics spelled out: an executor or out-of-state heir can order the inspection remotely — lockbox access, counsel or agent as the contact, PDFs to every party the estate names — and put the $99 on the settlement statement so no personal card touches a probate ledger. Auction purchases work similarly: the WDI typically happens inside the short window between hammer and closing, and booking it the same afternoon as the auction is the move that keeps the financing on schedule. On conventional negotiated sales, who pays is a contract line like any other — and at $99, one not worth fighting over.
However the file arrives — square, pike, estate, or auction — it books in one minute at the realtor link, with the notes field carrying whatever makes the parcel particular.
Old Timber, Papers to Match
Lebanon’s historic buyers tend to arrive with an archivist’s instinct — this is a town where houses have names and the antique stores sell other people’s provenance — and the WDI slots naturally into that sensibility. A Federal off the square carries two centuries of termite history somewhere in its timber, and each dated NPMA-33 added at each sale extends the house’s papers: what was found, what was history, what was sound. Buyers who came to Lebanon specifically for old wood deserve reports written to be kept, and ours are — specific, dated, plainly worded.
On the acreage side the same instinct applies practically: a horse property’s file that documents the barn’s inspections alongside the house’s is worth real money at the next sale, because the next buyer’s lender will ask exactly the questions this one’s did.
Buying closer to the city? We also schedule termite inspections in Dayton, Ohio — same $99 NPMA-33 report, same next-business-day turnaround for realtors, from our office at 733 Salem Ave.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much is a termite inspection in Lebanon?
$99 flat for the primary structure — lender-ready NPMA-33, next business day, PDF the day we inspect, pay at booking or on the settlement statement. Additional structures are scoped and quoted at booking.
Does the inspection cover the barn on a horse property?
Only if it’s inspected — the NPMA-33 lists exactly which structures it covers, and a barn isn’t automatically included with the house. Tell us what’s on the deed and what the lender expects; we scope to match. Barns with posts in soil are the highest-exposure structures on any parcel.
What do you find in the historic district?
Two centuries of documented history: old treatments, dated repairs, dry galleries in timber older than the termiticide industry. Dense history with no live activity is the normal downtown report, and it closes routinely when the language is precise.
Why are farm outbuildings higher risk than houses?
Wood-to-soil contact — the whole termite equation. Pole-barn posts in the ground, sheds on skids, hay moisture in tack rooms: outbuildings offer everything a colony wants, decades longer than any house would.
Is a WDI required for VA loans?
VA purchases in Ohio require it outright; FHA and conventional order case-by-case on appraisal notes. The NPMA-33 satisfies all three.
Can you inspect with the buyer absent?
Yes — lockbox or agent access, same-day PDF, findings call wherever the buyer is.
What happens if you find active termites?
A written verdict with location and extent, treatment quoted only when warranted — preservation-minded downtown, structure-appropriate on acreage — and re-inspection on the same file after the work.
How do agents book?
greaterdaytonpest.com/realtor — one minute on a phone, with a notes field for parcel and outbuilding details.
Nearby: south down the corridor, Maineville and the 45039 subdivisions in Hamilton Township are the same trip and the same $99 flat rate.
