Star Tribune Fri, 09 May 2008 00:40:50 GMT
Home buyers left on hook to repair bad septic system
Eric and Toni Kohnke knew something was wrong when the guy they hired to pump out their septic tank told them to get a lawyer. It was 2006, less than a year after they bought their rambler in Andover. Then the real trouble began. The toilets backed up. The laundry room and shower flooded. Now the family goes out of town for the weekend to get away from the house. And the Kohnkes don't trust drinking water from their well. The Kohnkes face going into $30,000 of debt to redesign the septic system for the home they've lived in for three years. The septic system was substandard, everyone agrees, but the people who sold the house to the Kohnkes thought they had fixed the problem. The city says it's the state's responsibility and the state says it's the city's problem
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