Need help -rental property and basement water.

[Tom Coakley]

Looking for some advice. My wife and I have a rental property with tenants in it. After years of no water in the finished basement and laminate flooring, we recently replaced the flooring with vinyl flooring. Sure enough,  we had a nor’easter here in New Jersey over the last few days. Of course, there is now water in the basement. It’s not a ton of water but I can tell it is all underneath the vinyl flooring but there is no damage (at least visible) to the sheet rock or floor moldings. My plan at this point is to bring in a water company to remediate. They will pull up the vinyl flooring and dry out the basement. My question is what do I do next? We’ve never had water and I’m not even sure where it is coming in from now. How do I find out where and why we had this issue? Because of the finished walls, I can’t see much of the cinderblock walls. After it’s dry, do I just have the vinyl flooring Re-laid ? …. Or am I just asking for more problems since we now have had water in the basement once, should I expect to have to deal with water under the vinyl floor again? should I hold off on having the vinyl flooring reinstalled?