A $750 fee to waive an escrow impound account sounds costly. If you otherwise like the mortgage offered by the builder, I would negotiate hard with the mortgage broker or the actual lender to cancel that fee. Of course, shop among other lenders to see if you can do better elsewhere.
Various cubits were in use in antiquity, but to be considered full-scale, an Ark replica would have to be somewhere in the range from about 135 to upward of 150 meters long (ca. 440 to 500+ feet). 1  Johan's Ark in Dordrecht, Netherlands. 2  Noah's Ark theme park at Ma Wan Island, Hong Kong, China.
Noah was in the ark for more than a year, not just 40 days (Genesis 8:14). 53 weeks is absurdly long to stay in the ark for a local flood since dry land would have been just over the horizon. After the flood waters had been going down for 4 months, the dove could still find no suitable ground (Genesis 8:9).