# Pest Inspection

> Pest Inspection reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:due-diligence:pest-inspection` |
| Family | Due Diligence & Inspection |
| Domain | Technology |
| Era | Institutional Age → Agentic Age |
| Kind | process |
| Archetype | The Passage |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Pest Inspection is a process in the Due Diligence & Inspection family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Pest Inspection reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** owner, occupant, buyer, seller, lender, investor, steward, regulator
- **Incentives:** certainty, speed, compliance, completion, error reduction
- **Inputs:** participants, documents, conditions, authority, time
- **Outputs:** decision, changed state, record, new obligations
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Pest Inspection reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- **Gift:** Clarity about pest inspection makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When pest inspection is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when pest inspection is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where pest inspection appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Pest Inspection reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Pest Inspection changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Pest Inspection changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Pest Inspection can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Passage enters the reading through Pest Inspection. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What information or condition must Pest Inspection translate before the next commitment becomes safe?

**Guidance:** Make conditions, exceptions, handoffs, and completion criteria explicit.

## Game function

Creates a gated action requiring inputs, a decision, and a resulting Record. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **Contingency amplifies Pest Inspection.** Contingency amplifies Pest Inspection through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Sewer Scope documents Pest Inspection.** Sewer Scope documents Pest Inspection through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Pest Inspection transfers into Radon Test.** Pest Inspection transfers into Radon Test through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Pest Inspection conflicts with Reconciliation.** Pest Inspection conflicts with Reconciliation through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Use Value versus Exchange Value
- Speed versus Diligence

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Pest Inspection through the lineage of Due Diligence & Inspection: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Pest Inspection: a sequence of thresholds connected by a single bright path, with conditions represented as gates; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [Mortgage Resources](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/compliance/compliance-resources/mortgage-resources/) — Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; origination, disclosures, appraisal, servicing, mortgage regulation.
- [Risk-Based Brownfields Cleanups](https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/risk-based-brownfields-cleanups) — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; contamination, remediation, reuse, institutional controls.
