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your situation is as bad as mine, but you have one advantage, though it came from a misfortune...you now have the funds to start. You see, if homes cost this amount to but, but they are new, and you can rebuild with the same $$$, I'd rebuild just so that I would have the security in knowing that everything was new and also so that I could have exactly what I wanted. We bought a money pit, but we didn't know it at the time. I have since lost my job and the few repairs I have done myself don't really amount to much, we need a new home, but can't afford to move and we have no funds to remodel or rebuild. Consider yourself in a good position. I do not envy the reason, but I wish I were in your position right now.