Recently I was showing a fixer home to a couple and we all knew that the basement would most likely be a Basement Disaster. We weren't prepared for what we saw!
My standard reply to who goes first into the basement is always, Boy's First! There is no way I am going to lead the way down those steps. I am phobic for all things that live in the dark such as, bats, rats, and white spiders. Not to mention mold, asbestos, bacteria and other contaminates in that standing water.
Yikes... so how do you sell a home with a basement like this? Guess you have to price it cheapo, or clean it up. To me it looks like this basement has not been cleaned forever and this is what about 100+ years of neglect in ones basement looks like. I ask you, would you buy this home based on seeing this basement?
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Mary Strang is the Broker-owner of RE/MAX Hill Country Realty located in Viroqua, WI. Home to Organic farming, a small rural city population of about 4000 and a great place to live! Copyright © 2009 by Mary Strang. All rights reserved... "Basement Disaster" the blog post was written by Mary Strang is believed accurate but may not be guaranteed.
Mary --- Yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!! It would have to some unbelievable price and then I'm not sure that I would buy it.
Liz I just wonder, have you ever seen a basement like that???????
Holy heart attack...man cave...cave man...who would live in/with this ? Take off the white gloves..put on the rubber gloves and get out the back ho...ho ho...hoe
Hi Sally, Yes it's pretty awful. I took the photo from the steps, of course, the camera flash was the only light as the electric was off in this house too... I ran up stairs within a minute... never to return.
I saw a basement like this once in the New York, it had a family of raccoons and rats...yuk!
Cindy I think there are a lot more basements like this than one would believe.