DISQUS

Dave · 1 year ago

Interesting...You may want to talk to your realtor. If the septic has failed and the radon levels are high the owners have to either repair them or diclose the issues to any prospective buyer, even if they have a superior offer.

always home and uncool · 1 year ago

I think Dave is right (though I don't think a baffle should have cost more than $500 and your septic would still work w/o but it may need more frequent pumping). Anyway, sounds like it was a good thing not to happen.

LM · 1 year ago

This house was just sold for the asking price: $619,000. I wonder if the new owners ever Googled the address and found your blog.

cherbert · 10 months ago

what's amazing is that we had a signed deal at 570,000. then we found all of these problems at the inspection and decided it'd be a black hole of expenses. when they refused to mitigate, we walked away. 1 month later we found a house that is twice as nice, bigger, more land, superior school district....all for 675,000.

Whoever paid 619,000 for that place is out of their mind.

joeyK · 1 year ago

Hmm... While the addition is a definite issue (an unofficial building can be ordered to be torn down by the building department, The radon and bacteria are always of interest to me. To me Radon in water is a bugabo made up by the USEPA and much of the epidemiology was done with regards to uranium miners in Grand Junction,CO. I address sounds familiar, but can not prove it since I do not have access to my data base that I keep such things if it was radon in the air -easy, but expensive to fix, in the water can be more complex depending on the amount. Remember that because of the aforementioned issue with the USEPA, there is a concrete radon level for air, but only a recommendation for that in water (of course they have only been working on the issue for 20 years or so). Bacteria in the well is a non-nonsensical issue, mostly because at some point all wells 'fail' and let surface water in and are extremely easy to fix in 99% of the cases/