Township Manager Bryan Havir said last week that the number of property owners who will have to replace their laterals will not be known until inspectors begin going door-to-door later this year. That doesn’t include the cost many individual property owners will have to pay up to $10,000, depending on lot size, to replace their sewer line laterals - the pipe that connects homes to the municipal sewer system. He knew the sewer issue was coming."Ĭheltenham Township, one of Philadelphia’s largest and most diverse suburbs, is about to embark on a 10-year sewer improvement project that the township’s top official estimates could cost up to $80 million, or about $8 million a year. "He went to Chester County and has less taxes. ![]() "My cousin lived a couple blocks from here on Beecher ," Hoffman said. But that’s becoming tougher, with local taxes now above $6,000 on each of their properties.Īnd that’s before "the sewer issue," as Hoffman called it Tuesday while pruning some front yard bushes at his brother’s property. No longer burdened by a mortgage, Hoffman and his brother, who owns and rents out another duplex on Ryers Avenue, are able to keep rents low for their tenants. In the blue-collar neighborhood of Cheltenham Village, bordering Northeast Philadelphia, Bob Hoffman has owned and rented out a duplex for 30 years.
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