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Im a Landscaper.
You can't just lay new sod on top of old dead lawn. You'll have to cut/dig out the dead stuff and put in new QUALITY top soil, at least 3" as mentioned above. By the time you go patching a bunch of your lawn, you're likely better off to tear it out and redo it. I usually just use a landscape rake, but you can screet it with a 1x4 piece of wood too.
I dont know your prices down there but turf should cost you somewhere around $0.40 per square foot. Most rolls are going to be 9sq-ft. you order it by the square footage, not by the number of rolls you want. Top soil is probably $40 per cubic yard. 1 cubic yard covers a little more than 100sq-ft (10'x10') at 3" depth. If you have good soil already, you can stretch that to 200sq-ft at 1.5" depth. The turf will add 1" to your base.
To deal with moss, Id recommend a hard dethatch/power raking in the spring, and then hit the lawn with Ferrous Sulphate (Iron Sulphate) once it starts to grow back. And then top dress with a sandy mix and seed the bare spots immediately to 'fill in' the lawn before weeds take over.
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