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Good news for Northeast Ohio Real Estate Markets.  Purchase Money Mortgage Appraisals are being ordered at record numbers from Pointer Appraisal Services.  In the past month our orders for appraisals for purchases of homes both FHA and conventional has doubled from prior months.  Conversations with local appraisers show their volume of purchase mortgage appraisals are up also.  This is generally a busier time of year for purchases and it is good to see that the market is picking back up. 

If you are considering buying or selling residential or commercial property in Northeast Ohio, you should look into our market data and valuation products for buyers and sellers to ensure you have the most up to date property sales from an independent and unbiased party.

An aeration wastewater treatment system and a septic tank system are actually competing systems for treating wastewater. Sometimes “septic system” is mistakenly used when there is an individual private sewer treatment system on a residential site.

An aeration system is a wastewater treatment system and is classified as an alternative wastewater treatment system, and does not include a septic tank at all. There are sometimes aerators in septic tanks to stir the sewage, but they are just to stir up the sewage and add oxygen to the mixture.

There are pro’s and con’s to each, but an aeration system takes up much less space and can be on smaller lots without the need for a large drain field (leach field).

Many times, as the Geauga county Health Department States, an aeration system can look like a regular septic tank on the surface.

However the Northern Ohio MLS has Aeration and Septic as separate selections in the listing input function, as they recognize the difference.

In fact these are the options in the system for water and sewer: Aeration System, Private Sewer, Private Water, Public Sewer, Public Water, Sanitary Sewer, Septic, Storm Sewer, Water Treatment, Well, Other.

Below are some references on the differences:

National Sanitation Foundation website on each type:

Septic:

http://www.nsf.org/consumer/wastewater_treatment_systems/wastewater_septic.asp?program=WastewaterTreSys

Alternative Systems:

http://www.nsf.org/consumer/wastewater_treatment_systems/wastewater_alternative.asp?program=WastewaterTreSys

Geauga County Health Department:

http://www.geaugacountyhealth.org/pdfs/SewageBooklet.PDF