The home is almost 80% completed, and due to the downpour these days, we went to check out our walk-up basement last night and found that the basement was flooded about 2 inches.

3 inches deep or 1/4 inch.

It's a drainage issue and when it "floods" it get a couple inches in some spots and quickly goes out.

That said, the price hasn't moved an inch.

An inch quickly turns into a mile in this business.

Consider finishing several inches of the outside edges of the treads and risers, and doing a carpet runner in a simple but very elegant material, different from the upstairs, maybe in a subtle pattern.Then, gotta replace all that outdated tile in what I assume is the entry, and make that guest bath an absolute KNOCKOUT! 

It's a good 4 inch crack down the pipe and it looks ceroded.

So you already k is you need to dig six inches.2.

Especially in the kitchen area where the top of the cabinets are less than six inches from the ceiling. 

We make better money on a 3 inch storm than a 20 inch storm .