Real estate agents and homebuilders can work well with onsite system professionals to conduct required point-of-sale septic system inspections. A thorough system inspection, performed before a home sale by a qualified professional inspector, can aid the buyer and seller and help ensure failing systems are identified.
Expansion of required real estate inspections is a good thing for states and local municipalities. It protects the groundwater for residents in neighborhoods. It heads off legal battles over unidentified failing systems.
It’s also good for onsite system professionals. Systems that are not cared for and cause problems erode the public’s confidence in decentralized wastewater treatment
