@Ritch Bonisa Thank you for the wisdom and don't worry I have thick skin and an open mind.

Thick skin, you need your inner Buzz Lightyear to be awakened. 

In my area I wouldn't buy a 1947 house with a basement water problem.I understand there may be other factors that may make this a good deal though for you.Obviously there are things you could do, such as ensure gutters are unclogged and draining away, or dig up all around the house and sand blast the outer walls and coat them and install gravel all along the exterior walls, or put in an exterior sump, or have trenches cut all around the basement perimeter inside the house to collect water and then pump it out, or you could even toss away some $ by painting the basement walls and floors with special thick paint, but why make any of those steps your problem?

I looked at a place a few days ago and the paint on the walls looked so thick (painted so many times) I could hardly make out any drywall texture.

One of the former tenants left some kind of thick paint like stuff (not poop or blood) in the master bedroom toilet and went on vacation at the end of the semester.

The price you are paying is for the coil tubing thickness.

The vinyl window ledges were so thick with nicotine we had to replace some of them just to get rid of the smell.

Anything else I would buy 4.5mm thick LVT wood plank flooring (about $2.25/sq ft at home depot).

Learning different state's building codes such as roof sheathing thicknesses.

Learning different state's building codes such as roof sheathing thicknesses.