Re: How do we fix this?
For your immediate problem any chance at getting refinanced via a new mortgage? Beyond that there is not much you can do but tighten your belt and hold on like your doing.
Now everyone else we should take a lesson from this, I learn this over 15 years ago and the following is how we solved it and prevented the grief it causes.
Having been involved in several major projects for a former employer, we always got several bids, for planning we always used the highest bid plus 20%, because something always seems to go wrong that should have been planned for.
The last two, both of which I was in charge of I made a list of everything that had gone wrong before. Took the time to consider all those little possible extras that might be wanted. Give everyone two chances before the final decision was approved to ask for what they needed. At that point I put together the final estimate the project cost 25% (7% of the saving came from using one contractor we trusted on time and material instead of bidding it from him) below the estimate we made. During construction or electrical contractor got us a chance to get a larger generated then planned which cost drove our cost up 2%, but it saved us major upgrading four years later.
Take your time planning and do not make changes afterward that is always dangerous and expensive, contractors love the word "extras".
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