Wow

I know I said I wouldn't post any pictures of the house until I had decorated more, but I just couldn't resist posting this one. Behold, our theater room in the basement...
Holy crap!!

Let's get another look at that pile of dirt, shall we?All day, men have been banging and jack-hammering away in my basement, and then hauling loads of concrete up the stairs and out into the garage. I thought that pile was appauling. But after they left for the day, I got the courage to go down and look at what was in the room itself.

Yikes.

So, here's the story, as of today (it changes every few hours). There was no issue with an actual plug. Rather, the pipe bows in a few places under our house, going either up or down, rather than at a gradual decline out to the street. (Thus, sewage would back up at the bowed area, creating a "plug" of sorts). They dug this awesome hole to see if they could just lower the pipe itself to fix the problem in the house. Also, there's some issue with the connection spot right outside the house, which is why they'll be pulling out all our brand-new flowers and bushes in front and making a huge hole outside.

We're hopeful this won't all cost the possible $10,000 to fix that the plumber told me on Tuesday (I stopped breathing for a few seconds when he said that) but it's going to cost quite a bit, that's for sure. And we don't know if we can A) prove who caused the negligence in the first place since a few different people would have been involved in the plumbing of the house and doing the pipes out to the street, and B) get any of those people to pay anything, since when people work on a short sale, they typically don't get paid and they're very, very angry about it. Maybe we can get an insurance company to foot the bill, but we're not sure about that either (not ours, since I was still in the process of setting up our insurance here when it happened. Who knew a catastrophe of this magnitude would happen in the first week?!!).

The fun just never ends. :)