So in the eleventh week of a six-eight week wait we FINALLY got the building we ordered at the start of JULY to house the kittens here at the other property in. It cost around $25k and I'm not sure how much the crushed rock pad cost for its placement but at least $1700. We had to move the propane tank which they only finished moving and hooking up last week just barely in time for the winter warranty check of the furnace. Meanwhile the power company also finally completed its part of running power to a pole next to the building last week and the electrician did the last of the hook-up from the meter/breaker box on the pole. THAT cost $3800 but there's now a 200A breaker box on the building not counting the 200A box at the meter and it's finally fully powered. He talked us into installing an electric furnace for heat instead of trying to rely on space heaters to the tune of $4800, so in a few weeks the building will have almost everything you'd want for living in outside of plumbing. We'll also be having linoleum laid down for cleaning and other purposes to handle the cats living in there, since we can't have them living on that original flooring.

Meanwhile the original house Mom finally called someone in to inspect the roof. The cheap estimate only repairing the directly damaged area is $32k roughly, to fix the entire roof structure (he said he almost fell through the roof several times walking on it) around $45k. That would include the ceiling damage in the kitchen and living room. While that wouldn't make the house livable (still needs the water damage that took out the power repaired and that's probably at least $10-20k) it'd at least improve its winter weather tolerance if we can manage it.

Hopefully though once that building is done at least I'l be moved in here at the other place with my cats, even if I can't let any loose in the house yet but at least we'd have something more stable than current housing for us.