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Well, this is quite a story!
It leaves a lot of questions unanswered, and we have a feeling that it’ll leave you shaking your head in disbelief.
You can say that again!
Check out what this person had to say about a house they bought that hit them with an unexpected surprise…
And you’re gonna be shocked!
Read on and see what this guy had to say.
Bought a little property, sewer line is fake.
“This is really weird. I suspect not actionable in court, but I gotta ask.
Two years ago I bought a little workshop on a postage stamp of property near my house. Old place, good bones. Used to be a grocery store in the 1950s, more recently a lawn business.
I had a minor sewer backup a couple weeks ago and called a pro to clear the clog. He couldn’t, and we couldn’t find the sewer tap, so I called the city. All they could find was the neighbor’s so they informed me I must have a spliced line.
That lines up with the direction of the sewer pipe, so I figured it must be right. They also said install a clean out, so I killed two birds having the plumber dig out the pipe for that and clear the clog directly.
Uh oh…
Once they were in the pipe they still couldn’t clear it out. Seemed like a clog further down and they found all the dye the city had used to locate.
At this point, we got permission from my neighbor to check his line and found no splice. The pipe just stops.
Neighbor is extra awesome and contacts the seller of his property from around 2020. That guy tells me he had the line replaced and the splice was terminated. The owner of my property was supposed to reroute his line.
Oh, my…
It appears he never did.
Up to now this is all just trivia, but the seller who never rerouted his line sold the place with the bathroom in the listing. I’ve been using a fake sewer line and paying the city for service it wasn’t providing for two years.
The city was initially defensive but since I have been a paying customer they’ll install a proper sewer tap. However I am out several thousand dollars to run a new sewer line.
I’m in a buyer beware state, but I’m at a loss how I could have ever discovered this through normal due diligence.
I had the place inspected, there was essentially no way for me to know the pipe had been terminated. It’s only dumb luck I have a great neighbor that we pieced it together at all.
Do I have any kind of recourse here?
I strongly feel the listing conveyed false information, never mind the heath risk of a dead end pipe.”
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Yeah, we have some questions about this one…
The Pipe to Nowhere doesn’t sound like a great engineering feat, does it?
You can say that again!
This is one big headache that he didn’t see coming…