Does the county courthouse keep records on all upgrades made to a house?

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My house was built in 1956 and I bought the house in 2004. My paper work during the sale shows that I'm on a septic and have a well. Long story short...I had to have a plumber come out because my bathroom toilet and bathtub are not draining very well..almost not at all and I couldn't fix the problem. Plumbers tried everything they could think of but nothing worked. Plumber ran a snake down my toilet drain and fully then the snake got caught on something and he couldn't get it to release. He said the snake when down the drain and went left??? My septic is to the right! He traced the snake with some sort of reader that shows him where the snake is...it shows it ran into my neighbors yard and out to the street in front of my neighbors house?

Would the county courthouse have records of my house ever being on city sewer or when septic system (s) were installed?

In · Accepted Answer

If work is done indoors it does not have to be filed. Also, work done in an area that is county, but not city does not have to be filed. 
If you are in a city, you are usually required to let them know that you are using their sewer, and if you were hooked up you would get a bill and your toilet would flow.
At some point, the city hooked the house up to their sewer. And the septic line was shut off. You do not need it. It is probably full anyway.

njyogibear · Answer

try the sewer department. but if you had public sewer service you would probably have to pay a sewer bill monthly or quarterly or something like that.

Max Hoopla · Answer

The building department would keep track of all building permits.

xpatinasia · Answer

No, it does not.

tonalc2 · Answer

If the work was done legally, there were building permits filed. Those are public records.

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Does the county courthouse keep records on all upgrades made to a house?

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