problems with basement is any time you have any electrical, plumbing, central heat and air issues, etc you will have to move your grow op to make way for a professional to work on the issue. that is unless you know a mj friendly handyman
or you are a handyman yourself
then yer good. of course u can make the op stealth, build a room in yer basement and tell people its a darkroom or storage something like that. only other issue i have had in a basement is spiders, not anything that eats plants, I just dont like spiders, and spiderwebs r messy. I also had to put a AC down there in the summer and a heater in the winter