An unexpected expense

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Recently, I was taking a shower and noticed the water was very cold and when I tried to make it a bit warmer, the temperature wouldn’t change. I thought maybe the water heater didn’t fill up yet. I went to the HVAC room to check it out and noticed that the light that usually blinks on the water heater wasn’t blinking. My realtor came with his friend to look at it. Thought maybe the pilot had gone out. They tried to ignite it but nothing happened. They gave me a number of a guy that deals with water heaters and told me to give him a call. He came with another guy and, after examining it, he let me know that the water heater is dead and needs to be replaced. The next day they came to remove the old water heater and install a new one. It turned out that there is not enough room to get the water heater in and out of the HVAC room. The only way to be able to do this was to cut out the wall in the back of a small closet next to the HVAC room. After they did that, it turned out that there are copper water pipes going through there, along with some wooden planks. They had to cut one of the wooden planks. And they also had to cut the pipes, which had to be welded back together after they installed the new water heater. They charged $2100 for all this. They did not put the wall back so that meant I had to find someone else to put the wall back. The realtor came back with his friend and his friend did it. The wall is back up, but his friend will come back to make it look nicer. I am not sure how much he’s going to charge but I think my mom said $320.