Found an affordable house but has flooding damage, can it be fixed?

[twentynine]

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Winner!

Good deals ain't cheap--- and---- cheap deals ain't good!

 

[reveriereptile]

We may give them a call and go over to look at it and decide if it looks like it would be worth fixing and then have a inspector take a look. If it is going to be to costly then we will just wait and either find another place or build a house. Most of the other houses around are manufactured homes that are $75K and up.

I did have a question about house foundations I didn't know if anyone knew the answer to or not. My SIL built a 2 story house with a garage for the bottom half. She had to have a footer built for her slab. Do all 2 story houses with a slab foundation need a footer or did she just need one due to it being a garage with no center support beams? If we built a house it would most likely be a 1 1/2 story but wasn't sure if we would need a footer for the slab. We wanted to have stained concrete floors with possibly radiant heat and a/c in them.

 

[twentynine]

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Yes! All concrete slabs need "footers" under load bearing walls.

 

[reveriereptile]

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Yes! All concrete slabs need "footers" under load bearing walls.

Thanks for the answer.

I looked out the window and seen my peacock walking by which reminded me of something. I seen a listing for a farm house in this county that was also going to throw in a pair of peafowl with the purchase. I got a good laugh out of reading the description and pointed the house out to my husband. He hates my peacock due to the noise. I scrolled through the pictures to show him the house and told him to look at those two additions that come free with the house while pointing to a picture of the peafowl. We both got a good laugh cause he knew I was pointing that out cause of my male was making his noise shortly before I seen that listing.

 

[sourland]

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This is exactly what I would worry about. They need to determine the reason for the flooding.