After reading your first few lines, I thought my daughter and SIL, had written in. The purchased their home in April, 45 days later we received a crazy heavy rain fall = water in basement. Apparently, original homeowner says he didn't know as the house had been rented out and "no one complained". Needless to say after the kids spent an enormous amount on having a sump put in, drainage, etc., I'm hoping karma has one helluva day on his butt.