My nephew had a guy come to his door and offer him close to 4 times what his house was worth. He was close to Lake Erie and his little house and lot was what the guy needed to complete a huge lakefront property without any neighbors. He couldn’t say no so he told the guy pay me for it and let me live here for one year for free and it’s a deal.
He called me up and asked if I would help him build a house in one year and he would do most of the work along with his buddies some in the building trade. I said sure.
He bought 5 acres out in the country and we started. In a million years did I ever think the hardest part of the project would be putting in legally a septic system out in the boondocks where all his neighbors had were grand fathered in little tanks with a ditch of gravel.
We started in with trying to get a permit first thing and it took the full year of stupid testing and digging holes to perk test and endless revisions to the design plans that had to be done by some guy the enforcement guy recommended who wasn’t cheap. On one hand they won’t give you advice and then no matter what we suggested was not allowed. We found out later what people do is go and dig out an area first a year or so in advance and then fill it in with an exact soil mix that will perk, then let some weeds grow up so it looks like normal. When you call the guy out he does his test and guess what you pass.
It is the biggest racket going in this county anyway. Just a eight mile from his house is a dairy farm and they have a manure pit that’s the size of a football field and they pump it out and spray it all over the place, but a single human needed a $30k waste treatment setup with us doing the work.
Even though he had all kinds of areas to let gravity do the work we had to put his mound on a spot 20’ higher than his house and put in lift pumps.
I feel for what you are going thru.