Mogrix

I have a home I'm contemplating putting on the market.

My home is vinyl siding, but my crawl space is brick.

One of the vents in the crawl space has a crack on the bottom corner that runs almost all the way down (it stops at the last visible brick from the ground).

1) What could cause this?

2) is this considered a "crack in my foundation"? I've heard those dreaded words, but don't really know what that means.

Pictures Included.

3) Can hiring a general contractor fix this without loosing value to the home? Approximate cost of repair?

I had to google "Brick Veneer."

As far as I can tell, it's structural brick. I only go under the house to change the water filter. I don't recall seeing any other kind of support system under there.

I've also never checked the other side of the brick. I assumed it would have been on both sides, so never checked.

I'm at work at the moment, but i can try and get some pictures tomorrow if you're still available.

Can you possibly give me a worst-case-scenario considering all this crappy-info?

Here is the new album

I don't know how to add captions to each image, so please forgive the lack of detail. i'll try my best here.

1) You'll notice I circled two photos with black to outline the bricks with the crack.

The outside shot is the vent that has the crack under it. The inside shot is where the crack WOULD BE on the other side, but it isn't there. Seems the crack is only on the outside.

2) I did however find a crack on the bottom in the gray brick, which i also included. The shot of the new found crack is under the same vent with the crack i was previously talking about. Is this anything to worry about?

3) I also included a photo where the brick turns into cinder blocks right in the entry way under the house. as it turns out, its all cinder block underneath the house. It all kind of bleeds together like you'd find in the photo. So i'm not sure if the brick is half-structural, or if that's even possible. The house is also supported by those cinder block columns. I included 2 pictures of that. I don't know if this qualifies as "veneer brick," or how normal this type of support system is.