@Jeff Engstrom can you tell any tile manufacturers that the world needs a 25" x 30, 32, 48 etc to stretch from back of counter to overhang?

So I would willing to stretch across the metro area and some suburb areas. 

Thank you for your explanation, @Linda Weygant.I believe your interpretation that appliances are "rotable spare parts" is a stretch.

They must be stretched tight to allow the air to flow freely through them.

But to say "nothing out of pocket" is a HUGE stretch.

At the asking price of 300K this may be a stretch.

Now if they lose a job or something, then they may reconsider but so far the people I know who can make the payments even at a stretch are making them.Hope for Homeowners is pretty much useless for homeowners but it makes politicians seem caring.

While I think you are right, it might be a stretch to think that we will all be waiting in food lines, I don't think things are going to be very peachy for much longer.Most everyone in the 30s probably thought the nation was in the 'information age' also.It's hard to see the effects of this economy right now, over the next year, as the credit crisis takes its full form, you will start of actually see people losing jobs.

And if you overpay, or get over-stretched, you'll really really fail

If we stretch the repairs out through January, which shouldn't be hard to do considering the whole basement needs to be completely redone, he won't make a payment until we are in there to make the payment for him.