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Posted by Pop on June 25, 2005, 7:38 pm
Unless there were some other VERY compelling reason to
buy that particular property, I think I'd be having
second and third thoughts about it. If it was a plus
to have, you'd see that in the price of the house. Is
the price lower/higher than expected? How about tax
assessments compared to neighbors?
I guess you could always opt right away to put in a
septic and forget about that thing for now. Then you
could do it either way, whatever happens. But I'd
never feel comfortable with something I knew so little
about. I understand the concept, but 17 years makes it
sound like a "forget it" to me. Can you find out if
there are any municipal annexations in the works?
Still, I'd pass unless I could get them to drop the
price by whatever a septic install was going to cost.
Just my two cents.
Pop
>I would ask:
> Who owns the lift pump? Leading to who is
> responsible when it breaks?
> When the city puts in local sewers, how much will it
> cost me?
> I would talk to the city.
>
> miamicuse wrote:
>> I am looking at a property in south Florida area and
>> there is something that
>> concerns me.
>>
>> The owner told me all the houses in the neighborhood
>> are on septic tanks.
>> But his house is not. His house was originally
>> built and owned by the city
>> engineer at the time, and he had a lift station
>> installed on the property.
>> He showed it to me, it looked like a well with a
>> handle to open and close
>> the valve. He told me this property has a direct
>> connection to the city
>> sewer and there is a primary pump and a back up
>> secondary pump to pump the
>> waster water to the main sewer line. The main sewer
>> line is not far from
>> the property, but the city is slow in getting them
>> connected (he said the
>> city has been saying they will be connected "soon"
>> for seventeen years).
>>
>> He said he has someone that comes by to
>> service/check the lift station once
>> every quarter, and he has to go out and check to see
>> if it is ok every month
>> himself to make sure the pump continue to work.
>>
>> I am not sure of all the specifics of what is
>> involved to check to see if
>> the pump still works, is this a maintainance
>> nightmare I am getting into or
>> this is a neat feature to have? Does having a "lift
>> station" enhance
>> property value?
>>
>> MC
>>
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