Gotta hook up...

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Are you already hooked up to water?

What are the costs?

What are monthly fees?

Where?

$hi**ers full...

Meats meat ,and mans gotta eat

I did that about seven years ago. It tore up the yard something terrible.

I don't regret it in the least.

When we had to tie into sewer at my first house, the town had a program where they'd give you an interest free loan and the payments were just lumped into the tax bill.

Maybe there is something similar in your area.

Usually when a muncipality is making it a requirement they give those "rebates".

Never hurts to ask though.

I am in the county, barely outside city limits. The builder of my home's father owned the land for the subdivision and his mom was the exclusive realator.

While we now own the home owners association, the builder owns the sewer system. He is a rich summitch

I sell water--it's pretty lucrative, too. Got a monopoly!

Back to #1: There is no sewer here, we use septic systems. I'd hook up to a sewer in a second, but not because my system doesn't work, it does.

But county requires not just leach field, but also reserve leach field, and you cannot do any development on either spot.

Takes up a lot of space.

That's why I told our real estate agent we preferred a place with a sewer hookup. Most of the island, being rural, is on septic. I figure eventually most will switch over and it will cost big $$$$. We got a place with a sewer hookup, and now the state is forcing inspections on septics, making not being on sewer more expensive, and places nearby that are looking to hook into the system are facing large bills.

^Cali is trying the same 'inspection' thing. Not very popular.

My first house I bought was built in the 40's. It was an old farm and we bought the house that the old farmer built for one of his kids. Field stone foundation, hand axe cut supporting beams... Pretty cool... if only the beams could talk.

Wally, the old widower across the street, got into the subdivision when he got back from WWII. He's the salt of the earth and I miss hangin' with him and learning the history of the neighborhood. What he's seen come and go...

Old folks are cool

Anyway... back to the post at hand... check to see if there's an incentive, rebate, loan or whatever to tie in.

It was pretty painless for us to do so. All we had to to was to make a call to get the paperwork mailed to us and sign off, The town paid the plumber and excavation guys who connected us. No out of pocket $, just an added fee to the quarterly real estate tax which was paid out of escrow from the mortgage.

I think the connection cost me a few grand but since it was interest free and over the term of 30 yrs, it was painless - less than what you'd pay for a month of cigars. When I sold the house, I folded the "betterment" (connection into town sewer) into the terms of sale and the buyer assumed the loan.

Bucky, regarding the '...old folks are cool...'

Ialways dig talking to old people, they are the ones who often lived what we can only read about.

I talked to one ancient mofo in a bar in Lake co. who told me about watching San Francisco burn after the 1906 earthquake. They lived in the Oakland Hills (across the bay), and he was sitting on his father's lap watching the fire through a telescope...pretty neat to hear this stuff 'first hand'.

Found out I may be able to get a grant. But tons of paperwork and verifications. Like, since there are 4 persons in my household (couldn't count the dog and koi), I need to supply the SSN cards; last 3 yrs tax returns; bank stmts; on and on...

Looks good to get it, but quite a hassle. Guess I better not complain! LOL

I'd pay almost anything for one.... I replaced my lateral lines last year, cost about $2500, and after last weeks heavy rain I backed up again..... my yard gets saturated and it takes days to dry out.... plus my storm cellar always has water in it.... been told there's like an underground stream or somethin running thru the area.....

Drafter, you may want to talk to soils engineer...

There is some ground that just won't perk, though.