What to check first on a Scugog arrival
A listing inside Port Perry usually sits on municipal water and sewer, so the questions are the ordinary ones about the roof, the furnace and whether the lower level has taken water in a wet spring. Once you leave the town limits the picture changes. Ask whether the property is on a drilled well or a dug well, when the water was last tested, where the septic bed is and when the tank was pumped. On the lake, ask what the shoreline is like at low water, because Lake Scugog is shallow and weedy in places, and whether the dock and any shoreline work were permitted through Kawartha Conservation. On an acreage, find out whether the parcel sits inside the Greenbelt or the Oak Ridges Moraine plan area, since both limit what a future owner can build or sever.