The problem is the 6 inches between your ears.

:D I say that with a half inch of ice covering everything outside my door.

Most of the gable roof is in great shape, the shed roof has one bad spot, perhaps 18 in wide and 24 inches long, near the gutter.

but then its times 10 and 3 more dont fit right so you throw em away and buy new ones, another 200 for new hardware for those doors, and oops they all still need to be 1/8th inch less wide, and guess what you dont own that tool - another $200...stuff like that...You make one thing look brand new, everything else in the room now looks like crap.

Then add a couple inches of topsoil..But of course I am not a contractor/landscape professional.Rick

since some areas were only 2 inches and others was less than 1/2, we did not think it would be a big thing

It really is easier to throw down some 1/4 inch luan plyboard if you can't/don't want to strip the old floorcovering down to the underlayment (definitely something you do NOT want to do in the case of asbestos containing tile and older linoleum).

For example a house is listed in the paper for auction, it is vacant, it has no mailbox, grass two feet tall etc., will any lender unload that non-performing note at that point?

I would really like to help this guy and if I knew what I know now when I saw his house go up for sale and the grass get real tall It would be easier to talk to him.

Steamers vs. sailing ships, diesel locomotives vs. steam engines, hydraulic excavators vs. steam shovels, and every generation of disk drives from the old refrigerator sized ones to the current 3.5 and 2.5 inch products.