And it very well may not be. There are a lot of potentially disastrous downsides to digging out your crawl space to create a basement you can then finish: You’ve got a crawl space you try your ...

Last week, a homeowner in Altadena, Calif., who had been displaced by the Eaton fire returned to find a 525-pound bear still nestled in a crawl space underneath his house. The bear — let’s not ...