Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

No, not in our relationship, in our cellar walls!

For some time now we?ve known that our basement as a mold/mildew problem.  We?ve actually had a couple different people come in to take a look at it.  The first one was a guy that wanted to drill holes in the bottom concrete blocks of my house?s foundation and then run a new drainage system around the outside.

And that was only protecting me against the basement floor from getting wet, which is wasn?t.

Tuesday, a different man came to my house.  His company injects some Balsam clay into the ground around my house to seal my house?s foundation and make it waterproof.  The clay enlarges when in contact with water, and fills in the cracks in my foundation.

He?s the first guy that actually showed me where my concrete block wall was starting to show signs of strain.

And he?ll fix it all for $6,900?what a deal!  Wish I carried that around in my pocket.

So, now I?m in a pickle.  I?ve gotten out of debt, and I really want to stick to an all cash way of living, but I?m not sure how I fund this repair (now?s a good season to do it) without getting one of those Home Equity Loans or a Home Equity Line of Credit.

I mean, Mortgage Interest Rates seem to be cooperating, and it would be something that I could pay a bulk of in cash (emergency fund?), but I?m just not sure that I want to go back into debt.  I like not being in debt!

What would you do?

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