Failed Title 5? We'll still buy it.

Massachusetts requires a Title 5 septic inspection before almost any sale of a house on a private septic system. If it fails, the system has to be repaired or replaced before a bank will lend on the house, or the buyer has to escrow the cost. A new system runs $25,000 to $50,000 or more depending on soil, water table, and how close you are to the water, and on the Cape it can be higher. For the longer version, including your options before and after the inspection, read what a failed Title 5 means for selling your house.

Most sellers do not have that money sitting around, and most retail buyers do not want to take on a septic project on day one. So the house sits, or the deal dies at the inspection.

We pay cash, so there is no bank and no requirement to fix the system before closing. We price the replacement into our offer, buy the house as-is, and handle the septic ourselves after we own it. You never write a check to an installer.

Same goes for a system that has never been inspected, a cesspool, a system in the wrong spot, or one that the town says has to be upgraded. If the septic is the problem, we are the buyer.

Almost every house on Cape Cod is on septic. So is most of Plymouth County outside the town centers, the South Coast towns like Westport, Dartmouth, and Rehoboth, and the rural parts of Norfolk and Bristol Counties. If your town is on septic and your system is old, this page is for you.

A failed Title 5 is one of many reasons people sell a Massachusetts house as-is to us. The others are on that page.