Purchase price: $290,000 Cash invested: $150,000 Second deal - 1895 Victorian in Galveston East End Historic District What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

It's also really cool that it was originally built in 1840 and has a Victorian style to it.

Generically speaking a duplex is going to feel more like a home .... potentially be a bit bigger living as well and more chance of private outdoor space.The 4 plex is more likely to be an old Victorian split up...and some units could have a funky/cramped layout.

I have a beautiful Victorian in University Terrace and another close to midtown that I would like to Airbnb.

@Michael Kundrat don’t know Salt Lake City market but plenty of 100+ year Victorian multis here in Jamaica plain and prices well over 1M.

I condo-ed a Victorian Building that was supposedly built in 1902, another source said it was 1890. 

Old victorian with character. 

If you have lived in a 1960s suburb of California your entire life, don't buy a Victorian in Boston.Don't buy a high-risk property.

Hi, I own a Victorian 4-plex in the SF Bay Area, which at some point would have been converted from a single family home.  

@Sam Leon Water dispersion is one of the characteristics of a Green Roof ;-)  It is quite possible the compost on your roof, and the matter growing in it, was masking the leaks.Termites are something with which we thankfully do not have to deal up here ... yet {I hear they are in parts of Maine now, so it will just be a matter of time and a couple of mild winters before they find the tasty old Second Empire, Queen Anne, Victorian .... buffet which awaits.