Storm & Flood Damage Recovery in Hollywood, FL

It probably was not written about your part of it. The city spans a barrier strip, the ground between the waterways, and drained land further west, and those three have different water tables, different outfalls, and different failure modes. General local advice tends to describe whichever one the writer knows. Establishing which of the three you are in makes the rest of the guidance usable rather than confusing.

On a slab from the 1960s that is usually moisture coming up through the concrete rather than an event. Slabs of that era went down over damp ground with little or no barrier, and beside tidal water the ground stays damp year-round. A moisture test in the slab distinguishes it from a plumbing loss in an afternoon, and the remedy is a barrier under a new floor rather than a repair.

What will be metered, where, and what dry standard is being used. In block-on-slab construction the answer should include the slab and the bottom course of block, not only the drywall and the framing. An estimate that prices carpet, pad, and baseboard without saying how the masonry will be assessed is pricing the visible half of the job, and the invisible half is what determines whether it works.