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Originally Posted by john70t

My understanding is vertical cracks are okay.
Settling in one area of the foundation.
Can be fixed with basement joist blocking to spread the load across the entire perimeter. Interior supports can also be added.
Also fix outside yard drainage and downspouts flowing into the foundation. Need to divert it away.

Beware of horizontal cracks. That equals total shift.

This is pier and beam and the inspection showed that things were in pretty good shape underneath the house with modern hardware despite the house being 100 years old. Of course, that didn't involve any of the fancy digital measurement of things like when you get a foundation quote.

Yes, yard drainage is something that came up in the inspection as well.