Recommended that a qualified structural engineer evaluate and provide plans to fix.
Can’t tell a thing from that picture.
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What Bob said!
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I see the post, but what is it holding up?
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Good call.
Looks to me like a dug-out basement with a concrete parged retention wall that is becoming undermined and causing failure. The wood 2x4 (stick) was inserted to help hold the falling concrete in place. Can’t tell if there ia a proper angle of repose in that scenaro, thus the ‘good call’ for an SE!
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This is very bad. Looks to me like the foundation may be subject to collapse at any moment. There’s a fair chance it takes out the water heater and gas line on it’s way down too. Not good.
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And this is an active problem. Look at the dirt piled against the water heater. This is failure in action 
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…not to mention the chimney footing. 
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This is the 3P method. Patch, parge and prop.
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That’s not going to be cheap. My fee would be a drop in a bucket compared to what the repair cost will be.
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What percent of a change would guess that they would get an engineer involved for something like this? Less than 10%?
The best that I can see them doing is upgrading from the red can to the black one.
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My initial inspection would be $400 and any design fees would be $100/hour. If there is no easy access to the outside of the failed wall a concrete buttress wall on the inside would be a possibility. The concrete looks old so there may be other issues we don’t see.
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Absolutely that is a large structural defect, looks like a small slab and the foundation are being undermined. Unfortunately that defect is more common than it should be in afterthought dug out basements. I would recommend a structural engineer, reevaluate the entire foundation to advise on repair options and costs, preferably before settlement, because like the other guys said it’s gonna be expensive. Chances are there’s not much of a foundation for that house anyway. alot of times before building standards people just dug out maybe a foot or two of soil and just built the foundation at that point. I see that often here in Jersey in houses that were built in the 40s 50s and 60s.
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I have seen this very thing and recommended immediate mitigation-why-because it won’t get better
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You have a doozy to inspect. Wow.
Lowered Crawlspace.
Shifting soil.
No vapour barrier
Wood support post propping up a portion of a mechanically damaged slab, in danger of settling further or shifting damaging the water heater.
Efflorescence around the chimney footing.
Recommend a licensed general contractor with inhouse structural engineer further evaluate and improve the condition of the crawlspace and foundation if/where required.
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I’d call that “4P”. Patch, parge, prop, and PRAY. LOL
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(needed 10 characters to post:rofl:)
That it was, only the best get called out to these ones
Not a darn thing