> 2) Put the cheapest shiny sheen over the decrepit and crumbling bones of an aging house, hiding as best as possible infrastructure problems There is a good r

> 2) Put the cheapest shiny sheen over the decrepit and crumbling bones of an aging house, hiding as best as possible infrastructure problems There is a good reason for this, we deal with it in Toronto. The permit you need to do a tear-down and rebuild will cost you as much as the materials for the house and there will be huge delays in acquiring the permit. If the red tape wasn't so burdensome, we could rip down these garbage, post-WW2 matchboxes and build modern housing.