title 5

[paradise105pw]

What is the name of your state?ma.

i posted in the wrong forum

if sellling to a family member, do i need to get a title 5 done?

[Orcons]

Originally Posted by paradise105pw

What is the name of your state?ma.

i posted in the wrong forum

if sellling to a family member, do i need to get a title 5 done?

Title 5 is specific to MA. An inspection is not required if you are transferring title to your spouse, child, parent or full sibling. It is if you are transferring to other relatives.

[paradise105pw]

ma

thank you, this info will help me enormously!
the bank should agree with this?

Paradise

[HUD-1]

When is an inspection required?

In general, Title 5 requires an inspection at the time of property transfer:

When a property is sold to new owners, or there otherwise is a transfer of title to new owners, with certain exceptions.
In July 2004, Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 21A Section 13 was changed as follows:

"The department shall not require an inspection of a system for the treatment and the disposal of sanitary sewage below the ground surface if the transfer is of residential real property, and is between the following relationships: (1) between current spouses; (2) between parents and their children; (3) between full siblings; and (4) where the grantor transfers the real property to be held in a revocable or irrevocable trust, where at least one of the designated beneficiaries is of the first degree of relationship to the grantor".

Contact Ronald White at DEP with questions: [email]Ronald.White@state.ma.us[/email] (617) 292-5790.


When properties are divided or combined.
Even if there is not a sale or transfer of title, Title 5 requires an inspection when there is a change in use or an expansion of the facility. For example, conversion of a retail store to a restaurant requires an inspection. See On-Site System Inspections for details.