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Also -- new houses have Title Five compliant septic systems. There's a small, older house down the street from us that cannot be sold because there is no way to bring the septic system into compliance; the lot is basically all wetlands except where the house is, so it can't even be sold as a teardown. It's been more or less abandoned for years, though someone was using it as their legal address a few years back, possibly so they could enroll their child or grandchild in Andover schools. The board of health inspected it and found it to be unlivable. These days, someone is trying to get it fixed up as a rental.