HA. HA. Saw you mentioned Medicare. I just started another post asking about prices. Being a small biz owner like you, this has become an ENORMOUS cost. Was wondering what kind of finacial relief I can expect in 4 years.

SEPTIC - live on an island in the middle of a lake on the east side of Michigan. High water table. Stoopid people we bought a nice-ish 20yo lake house from BUILT THE GIANT PAVER FRONT PORCH OVER 1/2 THE TANK. Water is leaking in somewhere; tank, crack, connections? Not gonna tear everthing to hell to find "yep, the 50yo tank THEY DIDNT REPLACE is junk" So have decided to just get a new tank now, after having the field replaced last December. Bad thing is with the new field we are nearly land locked so have called around to get a 1000gal plastic septic tank that ony weighs 400lbs and hole can be excavated but a mini excavator. Mound style field was $20k and wife and I spent all last summer resodding cause everyone was busy to do a little $10,000 job?!? Wife and I did all the back braking work between making gaskets and vending at 4 Mopar shows. We're lazy that way. The big excavator they used TORE UP the yard. Muddy trenches 6ft deep. When they were done they said "We aren't landscapers. Thats on you". This time I'll buy heavy boards or planks to drive on and ONLY one of those small excavators.

Good luck to both of us