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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never lived in one, and I wouldn't want to buy a house with one.  It means the basement floods enough to make it worth it, and I don't want to deal with that.  [/quote]

This is Exhibit A in why you don't source information from DCUM. Most row houses in DC were built in the early 20th century.  At that time obviously no one would have installed a sump pump. Of course, until relatively recently construction of basements sought to eliminate water from penetrating instead of trying to figure out how to route it in its least negative direction. News flash; water always wins!. Modern construction doesn't just prevent water, it runs drainage (usually in the form of porous rock) under the cement slab and then pumps that up and out.

Point here is this; the all or none construction of the DCUM ignoramus class is frivolity. You can't intuit anything about a DC row house that doesn't have one and hasn't had major construction (e.g. underpinning). Maybe there is water damage, maybe there isn't. But the mere lack of one doesn't tell you anything definitively. At the same time I would argue that a row house that has had major construction on the basement level (especially underpinning) that dosn't have one should set off some alarm bells about the overall quality of the construction.  [/quote]

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