My parents have hundreds of pounds of books on home remodeling, since as I was growing up we had the super fun trend of moving into the worst house on the block, fixing it up to make it not a shithole, and then moving out. Such projects included building a bathroom in the basement around a barely-working toilet, installing a sliding door where there used to be only wall, tearing up linoleum from a kitchen floor and refinishing all the wood floors, etc. You get the idea. So if you need any of those sorts of resources, let me know and I can hook you up. :-)
Wet basement problems make me nervous, since my experience on the issue is that lots of people love to tell you what's "maybe" causing the problem, and there are about 4000 different "maybes". An improperly sloped yard is definitely one of the "maybes", along with roof gutter systems that don't work properly. Fixing those two should be enough to stop problems severe enough to cave a wall in, but it may not be enough to completely dry out the basement. Then again, maybe it is -- the uncertainty of not knowing whether the problem is really gone until the day you get 3 inches of rain is why I don't like dealing with them
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