The house was on the market for two and a half years before we purchased it. Our real estate agent and the listing agent on the house both had an inspector come out. Our closing documents state sanitary sewer not septic tank. We found out by coming home and our house was flooded with poo water...
The house is listed as sewer. The iota would be that you have certain things you have to do and can't do for septic that is not needed for sewer. Also we wouldn't have purchased it knowing that.The house was inspected, and was still said to be on sewer. Probably the reason we wouldn't know.
My wife and I bought a house almost four years ago. The MLS listing stated the house was on City Sewer, and come to find out its on a septic tank. Damage occured to our house, missed time at work, payed for hotels, clean ups, and much more. We have documents that show it was sold to us with the...