And this is why I take them out

I found that out in 1987. I had a raccoon chew through my eaves and get into my attic. My insurance agent asked if I was sure it was a raccoon not a squirrel. I told him the City of Chicago Animal Control loaned me a trap. I trapped it the mother, the babies she had had left, but what's the difference? He said a raccoon was a member of the cat family and WAS covered. A squirrel is a member of the rodent family, and would not have been covered. I lucked out. It was our first home, purchased in 1985, and I'm not sure we could have afforded the repairs.

I have a couple squirrels living around my house. They have never been a problem. They have lots of green space and trees to live in. But , you bet I’m keeping an eye on them. The first time I see one on my house. 
they will all be quickly dispatched. 

I had to replace my whole garage roof from squirrels tearing into it and making a home inside. So I understand completely 

Years ago I replaced the same trim twice in five years on a friends parents house. They had a shoot onsight policy for them since I could remember and a Crosman msp next to the back slider. The problem was eventually taken care of by removing 30+ oak trees in the back yard. 

Yep, that is exactly why I "harvest" about half a dozen every year at this location. The neighbors have some large domestic pecan trees. The squirrels are very well fed. That leads to large litters. The new squirrels need homes. Since they want to move into all the "summer" homes in this area, I send them along to greener pastures.

Images of the eves of our garage:

A liberal acquaintance has a squirrel problem. They are destroying his wife's bird feeders and she is a bird affectionato. They called me to exercise my accuracy skills in an attempt to eliminate the problem.

I told them I would be there the next day. She called that night and said somptin' came up and not to come. I had already dropped plans for another thing that day.

Week or two later, same thing. Come get rid of the rodents. The night before, another call.

When the squirrels give up on the feeders and are looking for a warm winter dwelling, I will be busy doing somptin' else for the rest of the winter.

I don’t have the trouble with squirrels. Maybe because I like thinning them out. But I do have trouble with porkies up at my hunting cabin. Between them and the woodpeckers, my T11 siding needs repairing or replacing every couple years. I shoot every one I see. 

I saw that news report. The squirrels don't bother my house, maybe it's because of the aluminum siding. However they tear up the lawn digging their nuts back out. Most of the holes heal themselves, but some are so deep and wide I have to fix them. Chipmunks? Those critters are destructive! I shoot them on sight. Lost too much $ to them. 

Our first home in VA was in a wooded neighborhood full of squirrels. I was really into archery at the time, shooting every day out back. I had a bird feeder mounted about 15 yds. from my deck and the squirrels were all over the place after the seed, so I shot them with my bow. My next door neighbor came over one day and said that he had seen me shooting the squirrels and asked me to help me with a problem they had. They had a contemporary home with high ceilings and no attic or crawl space. The squirrels had gotten in that area, were nesting and the constant noise from them running around in the ceiling was driving them nuts. They had an exterminator come in, he looked at the problem, and said that he couldn't help them because he couldn't get up there to place traps. Walt, my neighbor told me that if I'd shoot the squirrels living in his ceiling that he'd take us out for a steak dinner. Over the next 2 weeks I killed 32 squirrels in my back yard with my bow, including all of the squirrels living in their ceiling. We got a nice steak dinner out of it and everyone lived happily ever after.