Sellers make septic problems sound normal, including yearly snaking in their maintenance, or whatever, but it's not okay to have septic problems!

As a warning, you will meet plenty of snake-oil salesmen trying to sell their products as well.

One of my properties has a sewer line that has a belly init and for now I am snaking it every 4 to 6 months to avoid it backing up.Have you heard of those companies that can come in and put some kind of a flexible insert into your existing cast iron line and essentially gives you a new line without havingh to do any major digging.

s "relationship" with his bankruptcy snake "relationship" to his dad.

Chris you stole my thunder, We manage about 50 properties for others and we have about 50 properties or our own.

I am thinking that prolly the pipes have been stopped up and they need to be snaked.

This is mine:There's a lot of "snake oil" salesmen in the world, more so than ever before.  

I usually instruct them to plunge or use a snake.3) Minor cleanup or landscape.

Snake oil exists every where.

Browsing the MLS i found a new REO listing for a 1br condo for $15k. The last sale of a 1br was last July for $40k. Mostly 3br's are selling and for about $45-50k. The rehab costs are about $4k per the realtor/reha...