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All I am seeing here, is the insane yearly cost of recurring maintenance on an old wooden house...*shudders*
It's really not that bad except the paint job every 10-20 years which costs as much as a new car, but back in the day they had oil paint which didn't peel like latex does. Still, imo, worth it to live in an historic, unique, drag queen of a home.
I suppose if you can afford a house like this you can afford a really nice new car every so often. A really nice car. Because a full scraping, sanding, and repair plus 2-3 color paint can cost over $100,000.
Or ... you just develop a hobby of house painting...
Shutters
As someone with an old wooden house, it's actually not bad. They're built so damn well that they just.. stay there.
The expensive part is if you need to do any renovations. Updating electrical, plumbing, and HVAC sucks.
The looks you get when you tell your contractor you want plaster, not drywall.
They had to find a guy who still knew how to do plaster walls when we redid our bathroom. He was well past retirement age.