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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 3206369, member: 8240"] I get all that about having a proper home for the President, but some of us wonder how we could have spent $1 Million on this house a few years ago and now need to spend $1-2 Million to replace the roof and plumbing? What world do people live in if they believe that is a rational estimate? It isn't rational but makes a convenient excuse, no matter how weak. For starters, let's ask why the roof needs to be slate. If the house is so stately it demands slate then the house must be valuable enough to properly renovate it this time. Plumbing? You could rip out all the walls and do the plumbing at prices nowhere near these $. What else needs to be done to require that level of expenditure? How about developing complete specs and drawings and publicly bidding the work? If it's so decrepit, give it to me and I'll renovate it and sell it to Kemba Walker to use when he comes to Gampel from Boston for a game or two. [/QUOTE]