I'll attest to old homes being built or maintained poorly. Our house is over 100 years old and we've found just mistake after mistake. Galvanized pipes ready to

I'll attest to old homes being built or maintained poorly. Our house is over 100 years old and we've found just mistake after mistake. Galvanized pipes ready to burst when we remodeled the bathroom last year (a $20k job we did ourselves), to studs not being 16 inches on center to poor insulation (or no insulation at all) to outdated electrical to drywall over plaster and lath to multiple layers of flooring on top of each other. We've remodeled just about 1 room a year - we'll be done this year with the last bedroom. We've brought everything up to code and anyone walking into the house says it looks beautiful but it's been a huge expense and time consuming doing 95% of the work ourselves.