This man lives in a magical place and loves what he does.View of old town from our balcony at night time.Walking on the ancient walls of Dubrovnik  

Cedar posts leading to non-level floors, knob & tube, ancient plumbing, fieldstone with substandard pointing, wet basements, rodents, etc. 

My husband has been working on our ancient 4plex including what started as a small handful of repairs at one of the units where a tenant's been living for about 18 years (he's not leaving yet either).  

@Ross BowmanUntil about twelve months ago, no one believed the US government could effectively impose a nationwide moratorium on evictions, either.Until FDR forced everyone with in-country gold holdings to sell to the US government in 1933 at a set price, no American citizen believed that they could be forced to give up their depository-held gold against their will.In my personal experience, absolutely no one in Greece in 2014 believed foreign, unelected bureaucrats could keep Greek citizens them from withdrawing their own money from their own Greek bank accounts the next year.You believe Bitcoin is bulletproof because a series of circumstances JUST CAN'T HAPPEN.

Steve, most of my nasty sewer adventures here have to do with dessicated 100-year-old crap in the ancient cast-iron lines of the old houses of the area.

@Chase YokoyamaHi Chase.I started off doing lipstick flips (painting and minor repairs) on small condominium apartments in Greek apartment buildings.

About Greek market I would like you to consider and other ways for property  investing, not only buy it/ rent it.

New roof with sheathing (old tin-style shingles with purlins), new water heater, new electric panel with a lot of wiring, new kitchen & bathroom, and yet I still have ancient windows and old plumbing (on the plus side, someone before me had the foundation redone).

I don't care if the program just got implemented or if it's ancient.

FEW TO NONE.I've answered your questions, Evan.Now let me tell you a story and ask you something.I'm Greek, born in Greece of ethnic Greek parents, Greek citizen, speak the language, lived, worked, and paid taxes there for seven years as an adult.In the year 1452, the Ottoman Empire invaded Constantinople and took the city, the capital of the Greek world.