Ok so I know that everyone doesn't want to see it, but here is a decent photo of what our basement looked like. Even shows my quilt and Christmas blanket floating! It took us four days to completely clean and disinfect the basement. We only lost about $800 worth of stuff from down there, so I think we were lucky in that sense. The city did admit fault and are cutting us a check for the $800 this week. Since the basement is all cleaned up and everything is clutter free we decided to go ahead and get an estimate to see how much it would cost to get it waterproofed. We expected it to be around five grand. Boy were we wrong! Another wonderful detail of our beautiful house....we don't have a cement basement. Apparently Ohio is a big clay state as a natural resource. So our basement is built out of clay blocks that if remain wet over time turn back into sand and dissolve and disintegrate. Of course they do...that's just our luck right now. Our basement is so bad that apparently we are taking care of this at the right time because if we wait any longer they would have to come and jack the house up and remove the old walls and build new ones. That would cost around $30,000. So to have done what our home needs it will cost us $14,000! No kidding! Isn't that wonderful! And to top off this great week..we had a warm up into the 60's outside...the ground warmed up and thawed...made our sink hole in the front yard bigger....we lost the tree....and...and (get this) the sewer pipe in the front yard that is our responsibility collapsed! That's another $4,000 to fix this week! I am completely broke! Mind, body, spirit and checkbook!!!
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