That is not a bad price. I know it seems like a lot but felling and cleaning up is a lot of work.
Here they generally go from the top down just to avoid expensive Oopsies.
That's what I told my son. It's not an emergency right now and I have a lot of projects that I need to spend money on.
My kids said I should go back to tracking all my monthly expenses in excel. I paid off the jet ski this month, at least.