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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Potential buyes will already see that the home has an interior sump pump, which will reveal the basement has had water issues.[/b]  Given that, seems like it would only help to indicate that things have been fortified with exterior work as well.  Wouldn't highlight it in the listing, but I would include it in one of those handy "recent upgrade" sheets that tell you what has been done to the house by current owners.[/quote]

This is the problem, people are really ignorant about this stuff.

It doesn’t mean a house had “problems.” The building code requires that you have perimeter drains and unless the lot is sloped such that they can drain with gravity, you need a sump pump. A sump pump can also be there to handle an exterior drain below grade like at the bottom of basement entrance stairs.

A house in our area *without* a sump pump would be more unusual and you would need to look at why, probably a slope that lets the perimeter drains exit with gravity. But you’d want to look. [/quote]

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