26
Back in '92 my dad told me not to buy that house near the river
I was 22 and thought I knew everything. Found a fixer-upper on the Floodplain in Nashville for $38,000, which was a steal even back then. Dad kept saying "son, that creek's gonna rise one day" but I figured he was just being old and cautious. I bought it anyway. Spent three years and about $15,000 of my own sweat fixing it up. Then the big flood of '95 hit and the whole basement filled up with three feet of mud and water. Lost my furnace, my water heater, and half the drywall I'd just hung. Insurance barely covered a third of it. Sold the place at a loss six months later and moved to higher ground. Anyone else had a parent give them advice they should have listened to the first time?
3 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In3 Comments
the_spencer13h ago
Not sure I'd call it a "big flood of '95" since that 2010 one was way worse and Nashville's still standing. 38k for a house near the river sounds like you got exactly what you paid for honestly.
7
the_jennifer16h ago
Oh man that's rough. But just a heads up - the big Nashville flood wasn't in '95, it was May 2010. That one hit really bad. My parents lost their whole first floor and had to rip out everything.
6