# What do you wish you knew when buying a house?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 16, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-you-knew-when-buying-a-house/722683 "2015-06-16T16:53:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-you-knew-when-buying-a-house/722683/121 "2015-06-30T13:39:58Z")

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> [@even\_sven](#):
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> So, the home inspection was- odd. We just had a huge storm, and we found a large wet spot in the basement. The current theory is that there is a drain that was, bafflingly, carpeted over. Apparently most houses on the street have them, and they back up maybe once a decade. But it will have to be fixed.
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> What’s baffling about it is that otherwise, the house is perfect- an absolute jewel. It’s been meticulously maintained, and the only other issues the inspector could find (in a 3.5 hour inspection) were literally a few loose screws. The previous owner clearly took very, very good care of the place.
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> We are working with her to resolve the basement issue. Hopefully it works out. We got a VERY good price on the house (a similar house just sold for $35k more) and it’d be a shame if we can’t make it work.

If all you had was a small wet spot in the basement after the rains we just had, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. It was an insane amount of rain. Our sump pump couldn’t keep up and we had some water in our basement.

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