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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think less goes wrong on a 1920 house than one built 20 years ago.

I think a lot of what you describe may be the result of deferred maintenance from previous owners that knew they were going to sell.

We did a lot on our 1920 house for the first couple of years, but much less in later years.[/quote]

Ehhh we've owned our 1990 home for 2 years and it's been relatively problem free, no big surprises. My friend who bought a 1920s home last year could have written the OP. Every weekend she is working on another issue that has come up and they have spent a fortune dealing with the issues.

I do think the seller matters especially if they are elderly and have been in the house for a long time. That was the case for my friend, whereas we bought from a young couple who owned for 7 years, did some upgrades and then sold to move to a different neighborhood.[/quote]

That’s such an interesting take - we had the opposite experience. We are only the second owners of our older house; the elderly original owners built it as their forever home, and we love it. Everything was finished to an amazing standard and wonderfully maintained. We went out of our way to avoid houses that had changed hands what is probably a normal number of times, because we didn’t want to be fooled by layer upon layer of quick patch-up jobs done by multiple rounds of people who only ever viewed the house as temporary. But this goes back to your original point that it all depends on the seller. We just had more confidence that we would be able to tell if a house was good or bad if it had only had a few previous owners.[/quote]

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