PB2 wrote: ...
I'd agree w/ most of the other posters--the slope towards the house isn't the real problem; the real problem is it is a tank.
I owned a house in TN w/ a much steeper drive into the garage, but it was on a hillside and so there was room for a dip in the drive before the entrance in the door and the water was thereby diverted/prevented from entering the garage around the house and on down the hill.
Even w/ the little snow we got there, it was still a pita on the occasion of freezing weather.
W/ the arrangement here, unless it's such an economic deal you can easily afford to spend sizable $$ on repair in case it does flood and still come out well ahead, I'd opt for something w/o the problems instead.
If I went ahead, I'd plan on at least a $25K "kitty" as the rainy-day fund. If that thought elicits "ouch" and you don't have that kind of assets in some form which you can get to w/o pain somewhere else, I'd say you can't afford the deal no matter how good it looks on the initial purchase price.
And, simply as an aesthetic note, while the rest of the house is attractive the yawning cavern facing the street is an ugly eyesore.
$0.02, imo, ymmv, etc., etc., etc., ...
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