Bella Vista

[Terrel L. Shields]

MLS notes for once had some useful info. Any sale of property in the city of Bella Vista will now require connecting to the sewer system and closing thier septic system as a condition of sale....

How is that gonna affect values between houses with septic and those already on sewer? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[Rice Brewer]

Terrel,

Really? There are vast portions of Bella Vista that do not public sewer available, i.e., the lines have not been installed. In fact, I pretty sure that only the far southern reaches of Bella Vista have sewer lines.

 

[Rice Brewer]

double post

 

[EDWARD BERRY]

This Has Been A Requirement In Cities For Years In Nw Ark. Not Always Enforced.

FHA, VA Has Had This Requirement (if Feasible), As Well As Treated Water Hu.

Its A Concern For Sellers, We Have Never Been Able To Abstract Value. Say In Eastern Bv With Sewer And One Without.

It Certainly Is In Minds Of All-but My Mind Reader Has A Bit Of Mud On It.

Who Knows What In Bv?
Crazy Ed

 

[Rice Brewer]

Ed, you are right RE: "if feasible".

How can it be feasible when, generally, the main lines have not been run to the area where the property is located?

Yes, BV is running about 7-9 miles of main line per year. Yet, by their own estimates, they have at least 600 miles lay before all are in reasonable distance to the main line.

 

[Greg davenport]

MLS notes for once had some useful info. Any sale of property in the city of Bella Vista will now require connecting to the sewer system and closing thier septic system as a condition of sale....

got to wonder, is this an attempt to slow the growth of new subdivisions in the area.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

BV was a mish mash of 23000 acres. Most should never have had septic to begin with. The lots are too small. And since they size according to the number of bedrooms, builders call houses with 2,400 SF "one bedroom" (but it has a sitting room, a sewing room, a library, an office...whatever) and 3 bathrooms. Many are uphill systems. Many septic systems were metal tanks, uphill pumps, 50' laterals with valves that you turned weekly to take effluent to different parts of the lot. The soil is awful. When the surveyors kept turning down the perk tests (the Health Dept. let Cooper Communities Surveyors run the perk tests), the head engineer pounded on the desk and told them to drill holes until it perked or else...so they all perked after that although we (the inspection/engineering dept.) knew that the red clay soils never perk well. I could tell a million stories about polluting BV..some which would be true by accident if nothing else.