It's just a matter of time, David Schmidt figures, before he and his wife, Emily Wallrath Schmidt, have to deal with water in the basement of their vintage bungalow. The Schmidts were eager to move their young family from a condo to a house, persisting earlier this year in the competitive real estate market to land their new place, in Portage Park.
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