I was looking at a 1920s house 15 years ago. Owner said the wood had become so hard over the years he had to buy special drill bits to work on it and nails were mostly out of the question.

Lived in a 100-yo house in college. It would have been nice if the landlord was dumb to start with then went senile. Looked online last year and it’s still there and all cleaned up!

I think it was around $30K. That hood exploded and now that house is probably north of $400,000.