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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not buy a house with those outside stairs going down into a basement door.  There are so many problems with houses I would not buy a known wet basement.  If it was wet once or twice and remedied then perhaps.  Who lives in a house for years without attempting to fix basement water?[/quote]

Why would you not buy a house with stairs to the basement? Definitely does not mean water is coming in. I feel safer knowing I have two ways out. I've always considered the outside stairs to be a selling point, not a negative.[/quote]

+1.  We have a welled exit in our home that was built in 2006.  Despite a LOT of rain and several gales, hurricanes, etc, we have not had a drop of water in the basement (unfinished basement, we can definitely see whether there is water anywhere in the basement).  And the door is still perfectly dry and working on the inside.  I definitely wanted the door there.  At some point, we do plan to add rooms in the basement and the side with the welled exit is where we'll build.  That will be the only place that we can put a legal bedroom in the basement.  We're planning a little "in-law suite" down there.[/quote]

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