My houseplants that I bring in for the winter all go in sunny windows and are all repotted before they come in. I've never dealt with pests or bugs, and never lost a plant due to that (that I can recall, anyway).
Now, for plants that are in containter that get stuck in the garage for the winter- I don't repot those. They wouldn't be in ideal locations or conditions, I'm basically just trying to keep them alive.
Lynn is right- there are so many variables.
No one ever told me I shouldn't repot in the fall. I'm sure if they had, I would have surely killed some plants, but since neither me nor the plants were told, we managed
