If you seal it off completely and tell your insurance company it’s non-functional, you might even save a few bucks on insurance costs.

Suggest you keep your mouth sealed about PT as all brokers are interested in FT.

If the windows and doors are really new, and well-made, and tightly sealed, then maybe it is cheaper to call the locksmith, but most are not, and maybe the contractor left the window unlatched?

We sealed all the mice/rats enrty points to the property and the exterminator comes every week to refresh the baits...

Interesting Article about sealing eviction records so they cant be found.  

I would say, in most cases if a home from the 90s was built well and seals remain intact (no haze on insulated windows) keep them.  

However if a window has broken glass I have fixed for $10 worth of glass and about an hour to remove the Sealed window unit, break the seal, cut the new glass, add desiccant beads in the frame and seal it back up.

The way we work with a slate roof is simply to remove all the slate from the section of roof where the solar array will go, then tie in to the trusses/rafters with standoffs and either use a rolled asphalt surface or a rubber membrane to seal the portion of roof under the panels, then replace some of the slate around the edges so it's a seamless transition from slate to solar.

Furthermore, a good property manager seals the deal.Send me a message and we can talk it over.Jared

If the crawl is not professionally sealed, it needs to breath by venting.