Crawl spaces are nicer as heat/cool barriers during the summer and winter than having a slab foundation, but the moisture can be a problem and cause problems. I had a home that had a crawl space, and even with vents at all four corners of the foundation just below the actual home, I still had moisture down there because at 4' or 5' down, dirt is natually moist to begin with, and then when you couple that with rain or melting snow being absorbed by dirt, then dissapating or being spread out as its absorbed, hey, moisture is not uncommon into crawl spaces. What I did was bought rolls of plastic that were as I recall, like 20' x 50' x 6 mils and laid them down covering the dirt bottom. I covered it entirely overlapping one direction, and then laid down a another overlpping layer going the opposite direction. Dried it up pretty good, and made a huge difference.
I had two neighbors that did it even better than me. Both pumped soupy concrete into their crawl spaces, paid one of their sons $$$ to be down there to help spread it out as it settled. If I were planning to keep that house, I would have done the same, but the plans were to sell, and I sold it.
I would at least line it with plastic like I did, and if you plan on keeping the house, maybe even put a couple inches of pea gravel down to create a moisture draining barrier first, which is common in the midwest for crawl spaces.
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