Home inspection certification

25 Jul

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Resolved Question: Dealing with agricultural wages so that real Americans (Tm) will work at farms.?
One of the issues with illegal immigration is that American farmers pay wages so low that only illegal immigrants will work for them. Lots of the people who think that people ought to pay a higher “living wage” (whatever that means since many of these illegal immigrants could stay here for years and not only live on that wage but wire money back home every few months). So how about people set up some sort of certification programs and Co-Op where all the farmers who supply their crops have to pay an agree upon “living wage” and certify (with inspections) that they hire only Americans or legal workers. Then we’ll see how the prices of the food will work out since most farmers are making a very slim profit margin already so the prices are of course going to pass to the consumers.

Resolved Question: Did I do the right thing to “walk” from this house purchase due to septic issues, even w/lower offer?
It was a small vacation house, offered price $129, it had been over 6 mos on market, they paid $120 in 2007, I offered $98K they countered $110K but I had to pay for septic inspection.

I drove 3.5 hours to be there for the inspection, concrete lids were removed, both tanks filled to brim with mostly water very little “scum”. The septic guy tried to snake the 2nd tank to see if it would flow, nothing. They were going to have to return to snake it, owner said they’d pay for that. It was the first time I’d seen the house on a rainy day, the yard had some standing water in it, your heels sunk into the grass, the “rat slab” foundation under the house had a little bit of standing water on the side by the septic tank, the septic tank was about 5″ above grade from the slab. The septic guy there at inspection mentioned $13K to $16K to repair, but wouldn’t need a new permit as it was a repair.

I went home, talked to some people, they said it sounded VERY BAD like septic runoff and a saturated drain field that was not draining. They said the soil could be polluted with fecal coliforms and viruses and it’s a horrid soup. They said I could not only be out the cost of a new septic, but have to dig out the contaminated soil, have it treated before dumping, and put in clean soil, need new permits, plus septic, plus re-sodding. Another agent I’d happened to talk to a few weeks before this had mentioned a “septic problem” with regard to this house, but my agent minimized that as untrue because the house had been solid for decades.

I decided based on all of this, that she knew there was a septic problem, that she and the listing agent thought if I had to pay for inspection I might go cheap and just buy it without one. I don’t feel they disclosed the problem, that they had to have known about because the yard has standing water, errr, liquid, as does the foundation slab and another agent seemed to know. Further, the county is REQUIRING septic inspections passed by January and I figure the owners must be motivated to get out before they get fined for not passing certification–and that they likely cannot pass certification or they probably would have by now. I don’t feel I should have to pay for the inspection, and they haven’t sent me a bill……yet.

That night my agent came wrote to me and said that we could offer $20K less if I forewent any more inspections. That raised my suspicions that the problem was as grave as I was told, i.e. about contamination, runoff, neighbor / health liability, EPA, county certifications, etc.

Should I contact the county about this house septic runoff and ask if it’s reparable?
Any one with experience with “crappy” septics?

I wrote to my agent stating the house failed inspection and I wanted rescission of my offer and refund of earnest monies.

I love the house/location, but I don’t know if I should have offered mass less, or if my friends were right that this was a haz-mat nightmare???