Help! crawl space question

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19. I'm not sure though I would want my kids to either use the house or get the value from it once we

are gone. I will have to look at our home inspection report to see if this is noted, but even so I wouldn't have understood the implications.

I spoke with our mortgage loan officer yesterday who is a friend so I have an estimate of pre-approval for a new house though there is very little inventory in our location. This is one option.

I was hoping to have my husband or someone install 1/4 in hardware cloth which I think would deter chipmunks and anything larger though not mice. My only concern about this is sealing something in.

I am going to call a concrete foundation service today to see if there is anything they can do other than lifting the house. My termite/mice guy said one of his customers had a friend that used some sort of mini conveyor belt and dug out and sealed from underneath and used concrete board from the bottom of the shingle into the ground. The person doesn't work in our area but I'm hoping to get a recommendation for someone who does (also I may not have explained this fully as I don't know that I understand it).

I don't know anything about foam, is this something that you can get at a hardware/big box building supply?

Thanks for jumping in. My husband has pretty much said this is impossible but he has more tolerance with living in these conditions than I do.