Historically it seems like septic system installers and maintainers have been at odds with the real estate sales community. Whenever a state onsite trade association supports legislation to monitor and maintain septic systems, invariably a Realtors’ association steps in and tries to squash the effort to deal with environmental issues.
The real estate community circles the wagons and cries “big government” or “property owners’ rights” to push back on regulations they perceive will slow the sale process. They argue that addressing failed or failing onsite systems will cost the home seller and homebuyer too much money and are an unnecessary
