Flooded House

[jburchill]

Hello, I'm new to this forum. Here is my situation, my house was flooded this spring due to the river. We have a flood wall in the back that is about 4 feet high. We only got about 6 inches of water, but we had to gut the basement since we had paneling. We are looking to sell the house and my wife and i have a disagreement on what would better sell the house. I want to sheetrock the basement and try to sell the house. My wife wants to raise the flood wall up another 2 feet.

So now the basement is gutted and just framed. I think someone would want to buy a house that is finished, rather than having the floodwall raised.

We do agree on one thing, and that is putting in a sump pit in the basement.

I would like some opinions on what I should do, fix the basement or raise the flood wall.

Oh, the water got 6 inches above our floodwall too.

[comfortnow]

Raise the flood wall for the time being....It will be difficult to sell the house when people come to know about the flood problem. solve it first.

[jburchill]

It will take a lot of work and money to get the wall raised about 2 feet. I'd rather spend money on inside the house and put it for sale and try to sell.