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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A true walk-out basement is one where you can walk out the door directly onto the yard/patio. A basement where you walk out the door and go up stairs is technically not considered a walk-out, but that would still be more desirable to me than a basement without direct access to the outside, which I probably wouldn't consider.[/quote]

How can you walk out of a basement directly into a yard/patio without walking up steps?   I must be missing something, since a basement is by definition underground.  I have a basement with a walk out onto our yard (appraised twice as such)and you must walk up four steps.  It would not be possible to walk out of our basement directly into the yard unless you are tunneling into dirt.

I think you are confusing a basement with walk up steps such as walking up into the kitchen above, which we also have.  Our basement has exits into the yard (four steps) and into the kitchen (entire flight of steps).[/quote]

True walk out is when there is a slope where part of the basement is fully or mostly underground and you have an exit that is at the same grade as the ground. Generally a true walk out is considered more valuable than a "walk-up", which it sounds like you have.[/quote]

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