Yea, it's from these 'ancient' history of US betrayal in Asia that create the new world division between G7 vs BRICS. 

These are ANCIENT to Texans.  

If they arent renovated they will be old or ancient. 

Hey GangCheck out some of the excellent demonstration videos both animation and live footage on ;"Trenchless Pipe Replacement" and/or"Pipe Bursting"Very informative,,,I do these type of jobs in So Calif so I can speak with some authority on the subject,,,Again my purpose is to strictly give good information and adviceI like Trenchless as opposed to "pipe lining" because with Trenchless youre actually getting seamless New Pipe and Johns Manville guarantees the stuff 99 years.You can drive a Mack truck over it and it returns to shape.With Lining all youre doing is creating a fiberglass liner inside the original "ancient" clay pipe cracks and all .Hope this helpsDD in L.A.

Quick update on this one.I've seen the property twice (couldn't see the downstairs apt the first time).My father in law is very concerned with the roof since it has multiple layers of shingles and Yankee gutters (built into the eaves).Both boilers are ancient as well.I'm feeling like this could become a money pit very quickly.

Recap of this ancient thread.After 4 months on market as soon as I show any interest it goes under contract and at a higher price than I was going to offer.I seem to have a knack for that.

Do things right now and you could be a succesful investor by the ancient age of 30.

The hard working people who lived in a duplex, house hacked, improved cities, sacrificed.So the whole 3000 year old property ownership from the days of ancient rome are out the door. 

An antique kids pedal car, an ancient harmonica, and some pastoral scene tile from the 1800s.

We recently had massive flooding in our area due to an ancient infrastructure combined with massive rain.