No. The water is coming in because you have a low spot in the yard in that corner and/or the gutters are dumping the water in that area. You have to landscape that area so the water will run away from the house instead of seeping into the ground and then the basement. This is a very easy fix and shouldn't cost anything if you can get some dirt from another part of the yard.

There are three kinds of basements. Those that are leaking, those that have had leaks and those that will have leaks at some point in their lifetime. In my experience over dozens of homes now, all basements fit into one of those three categories...often all three actually. The important thing is to have a good foundation inspection performed but a structural engineer and, if there have been repairs made already, to ensure that the work was warrantied and transferable over to new owners (most are if done by reputable firms). The only thing you really have to concern yourself with are significant foundation issues. Those are costly and time consuming. Vertical cracks that have allowed some seepage but have since been epoxy-injected are considered "repaired" in most states and not always required to be listed on the sellers disclosure. And in most cases, if done properly, that solves that particular seepage issue. But others can (and often will) develop in later years. I tend to look at current seepage as a negotiation point. I carry a UV pocket light with me (available at pet stores...useful in finding pet stains on carpet) and shine it around in the basement. Seepage leaves efflorescence that isn't easily removed and shines quite bright under UV. Its a bigger deal if its behind a wall in a finished basement (and you'll see it as stains on the carpet along the baseboards in that case). But if its unfinished, repairs are easy....usually costs about $200-$400 per 8 linear feet of crack.

Sounds like ground water in saturated soil being pushed through the basement floor by hydrostatic pressure. Remember that water beneath the ground travels, maybe it is traveling undor your basement floor. I've heard of this situation before. Remember water runs like blood in veins. SOmetimes when a foundation is dug to pour a floor and foundation, there is alway a risk that the digging could have cut one of those water veins and now its back. You need a real qualified company who can explain hydrostatic pressure and explain some of the solutions. By no means finish you basement till the water issue is addressed. All that remodeling could go down the drain. All the best, The Porch Guy

I have a house that is raised from grade a few feet and an attached add-on garage that is on grade. After a big rain event, water pools under the house (which I had addressed 10 years ago by pumping sand, and so it looks like I will need to do that again), and the water seems to be seeping in through the concrete slab (already painted), resulting in a moist area on the slab area adjacent to the house (it's only moist, with no pooling of water). It's not coming from the wall of the house (that is another issue that I had had, and had thought that it was causing the seepage, but after I got that fixed, I still get the problem, so I figure that it must be seepage). Anyway, perhaps getting some more sand pumped under the house will fix this problem (when the last sand pumped was fresh, there was no water pooling under the house as the sand had not settled), but I would like to also simply apply some sort of paint on the garage slab that will seal that, so that at least it doesn't show the moist spots.