They remodeled in 2004 and there is no evidence of it being such an old home except in the basement - but even there it's the best century home basement I've been in - very clean, organized, dry and no smells.The main level is rented out to a local radio station (1 room) and tax professional (2 rooms).

I prefer to create more value by buying building with lots extra unfinished spaces or big dry walk out basement walk in attics, attached barns etc adding bedrooms increases cash flow quicker cheaper than extra bathrooms and adding entire apartments great too.

Liquidity dried up, loans were not being written. 

If your ceilings are high enough and you make it clean and dry, you are already ahead.

I observed that when money temporarily dried up at the beginning of the epidemic, and it was unclear where real estate was going, those lenders who also flipped or developed were not inclined to help their borrowers out with loan mods or forbearances.

Houston is dry all over map whether it's Sugar land, Katy, Cypress, Spring or Houston.

Visually it looks dry though and not wet at all.

I do have a dream of being some kind of real estate mogul though, ha...This entire idea of selling this QC home has stemmed from the fact that my husband is now 100% remote in IT and the house has no dedicated office space.

Record "dry powder"This is the reason that ultimately forced me to stop "waiting for the bubble to burst" back in 2019.

Now I haven't done a residential purchase in over 3 years because all the deals dried up and the market seems to be getting frothy with out of state investors moving in again.