Thanks guys. And thanks for the offer Jeff, I really appreciate it. I am going to read some articles/books and take care of the siding here in the next month. Davidmil...your words are eloquent my friend and show deep care and concern for your fellow man. But for real, I am not much of a complainer. I just feel like I am going to pop and needed to vent. Being out $4,000 in one month is about to make me throw up. Greg, not sure what caused the electrical fire. I said "fantastically dangerous" meaning F ME. I just know a terrible smell began coming out of laundry room and I could not find the source of it. I even took the dryer apart thinking maybe some lint was on fire somewhere inside the dryer of the evac pipe. Nothing. It started getting worse and we were about ready to call the fire dept. but I found the cause of it to be a connection from one of those long tube lights....it caused a fire that spread up the electrical cord into the light. It completely ruined the light and the cords that came from the ceiling.
hmm, looking at your third picture I see Nitrous and a Blower... what are you complaining about again???
VS I am just heading off to work but will give you a good write up on doing the siding. If you can take a picture of where it needs to be replaced than I can give you a detailed write up for any situation that you might come across and guide you through it all. No need to get any books and do more reading than you have to.
The pic is just a representation of my truck being at the shop costing me a ton of money....not installing anything. Hell I still have a tape deck and manual windows/locks in my truck.