Gah! Sticker shock!

I'm about as far from a do-it-yourselfer that one can humanly get. I know which end of a hammer to pick up, but I'd probably injure myself trying to use it as a screwdriver.

I know less than diddly squat about roofing, which is why I feel like I'm floundering in trying to evaluate my options.

I woke up Saturday morning to find water dripping through the ceiling of my bathroom. Oh joy. Oh bliss. Oh rapture. So I call a roofer (picked out a name from the yellow pages) and he comes over, spends about 3 minutes on the roof and tells me it's shot. Patching won't do. He won't really give me specifics though, which sets off red flags. So I say "ok, send me an estimate." I wasn't about to sign off on a multi-thousand dollar job (that I can't really afford) without getting multiple assessments and estimates.

Well, I've had 3 different roofers out to look at the house, with a 4th coming tomorrow, and all 3 concur that the roof is in bad shape. All 3 are giving rough estimates in the $7,000+ range, and that assumes that none of the sheathing needs to be replaced (2 of the roofers stated that they believe some of the sheathing will need to be replaced, with 1 of the roofers implying that the sheathing replacement may be $4,000-5,000 ADDITIONAL!).

I feel like a deer caught in the headlights.

This is an 1,100 square foot ranch, attached 1-car garage, slab construction, about 50 years old. Low-rent district (lower class neighborhood, nothing fancy by any stretch of the imagination).

Here is an aerial shot of my house from Google maps, so you can see the roof configuration; I've overlayed the dimensions, if that helps.



Am I being taken to the cleaners, or is a roof replacement on my dinky little house really that expensive? This is downstate Illinois, if it matters.

I've only received one hard estimate thus far, shown below. I've redacted both my and the roofer's personal information.

Any advice would be appreciated; this is potentially turning into something way more expensive than I ever anticipated. Thanks in advance.