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Originally Posted by FlyingScot
We were lucky enough to rent for a week or two at a time for years before we could afford a place of our own, so I would not want to deprive anyone else of doing the same. But we always treated these places and their neighbors as well as we would our own. And I doubt any of those neighbors sensed anything different other than our minivan.
The real issue here is abuse--overcrowding and/or noise. There shouldn't be 8 cars and a party for 20 in the two bedroom cottage with an aging septic system that the nice old folks bought in 1952...So it's no surprise to me that these things drive more regulation.
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This is the real issue. There will always be people who abuse the system. Maybe if you’re going to rent your house out, it should be inspected beforehand by the town. If the septic system is small and outdated it should have to be replaced.
We had a real problem years ago when one of the neighbors decided to rent for the summer. It was just a small camp with a 50 gallon septic tank. Sometimes there would be as many as eight cars in the driveway. We had a beautiful beach and they had none, so the tenants decided they would just take over our beach.
We spoke to the owners several times and they never believed that there were so many people there. they had a handyman go in to prove that the septic was fine.He put some red dye in the toilet and flushed it and sure enough it went right into the lake. Who wants to deal with this?
Not everyone is a good tenant and that is the problem. Believe it or not, the house still has that original septic tank because it has not changed hands in decades. We definitely need more regulation.