The Super Official Homeowners Thread

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Lee you already know where that story's going.  all the re-insulating, new efficient windows, running modern electrical lines...that's the kind of renovation that takes years.

sounds great on paper but owning historic homes are as much of a full time job as they are a dwelling.

100%.  Replacement windows sympathetic to the old styling of windows in a house that size could be $35k+ alone.  Every bathroom would need remodeled / expanded, some rooms would probably need to be blown out, kitchen is entirely from I think the 50s or 60s at best so that's a full remodel ($20-30k+).  Dad got a quote on HVAC retrofit and he didn't even want to say how much it was.  I don't want to think about the rewire.  Fortunately it has well and septic squared away, and it does have a cool circa 1700's hearth in the kitchen that is so Chip and Joanna Gaines I can't even stand it.  Oh and a heated in-ground pool in the back that we could restore if we wanted.  

I told wife if we loved the homesite it would be dramatically cheaper just to bulldoze the entire thing and start over.  But being a historic building and all and my dad being nostalgic to such things I know he wouldn't be having it if I brought in a demolition crew.