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    The city is willing to "finance" the project if I hook up to the street and hold the bill until the house is sold. No payment will be due until the house sells.

    Will the city sewage system help the value of the house?

    When I bought the house 13 years ago the septic field was "ok" , not sure what its going to be 13 years later. I live alone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by loosenut View Post
    The city is willing to "finance" the project if I hook up to the street and hold the bill until the house is sold. No payment will be due until the house sells.

    Will the city sewage system help the value of the house?

    When I bought the house 13 years ago the septic field was "ok" , not sure what its going to be 13 years later. I live alone.
    I think having a sewer hookup won't necessarily make you money, but make it more appealing to buyers

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    Talked to a couple od diggers of mine and they are slammed with work.... told them to keep me in mind in case they got an opening coming up..... tell the city you called three different contractors to come out and nobody showed up or they said they're too busy, that'll buy you some time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by loosenut View Post
    The city is willing to "finance" the project if I hook up to the street and hold the bill until the house is sold. No payment will be due until the house sells.

    Will the city sewage system help the value of the house?
    IMO it would increase value.
    buyers might be afraid of a septic system..... not having experience with one.... they system would have to go through inspections for a FHA loan...
    also living alone your not taxing the system very hard.....
    I would push it it a few years ... get full use out of your system.... tell the city you need to save for the funds to pay a contractor..
    Very generous offer from the city though....

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    Are you sure they need to dig it out completely? A buddy of mine just had the water line to his house replaced and they did it from the basement to the street without digging up his lawn - they just dug a hole to make the connection. He used a company called "Billy Bones". PM me if you want his number. Also, I would try "The Plumbing Professors" who do a lot of stuff like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhiteHawk View Post
    Are you sure they need to dig it out completely?

    -Geoff
    When I did mine we had to cut the pipe-(close to the house) to the tank and make a fast deep dive with the pipe (we used 6" I think) till we hit 48"... then make a couple 90% to the front the house.... we picked up a old laundry drain on the side of the house to the front yard where the city's lead was 16' + deep.... adding several clean out caps along the way...
    Maybe 300' total in pipe..... the "tank" which was concrete had to have the top busted (not all city's make you do this) and filled in with dirt. My field is still in place.
    Made a mess...we used two tractors with backhoe buckets...... sucked doing it.... water bill tripled.
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    My neighbor just hooked up to city sewer and had the septic pulled, spent $12,000 on it.

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    You'd think homeowner's insurance would cover this dilemma...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beigg View Post
    You'd think homeowner's insurance would cover this dilemma...
    negative. not an insurance related issue

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    Stay on it if you can, if you have the space you can just put a new field in and abandon the old one. If your willing to dig the materials are not expensive.

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