I don't specialize in alternative energy though, I mainly leave that up to the men here, but you'd be surprised how easy it is to survive without all the modern methods, after all people did it for millennia.

I like your note about kitchens and bathrooms.I am hoping to make it look more "modern" with the colors/styles.

The main floor is great, and renovating the top into a modern loft-style hangout should help rent this home when we move out.Any recommendations for general contractors?

Hard to find parts, hard to find resources, often companies dont exist anymore, or parts are more expensive than what the new modern standards are.....

Utils, HVAC, and water heaters are modern and separate on each.

For instance, if you are going to buy and hold and 1970es asset without doing major renovations your CapEx reserve requirements will look very different from a 1998 property that you are spending $25,000 per unit to modernize.

I can only hope -- glass half-full -- that those moving into these areas will request houses with modern updates, reflective of their Travis county counter-parts.

Ethnic and racial self-determination have been underlying factors in the formation of modern nations.

However, start taking that back to the 40's, 30's, 20's, etc. and you'll find that fixing/repairing anything, no matter how recently it was replaced is more expensive and time consuming than a more modern counterpart.

Now although the content is off topic, it is still close to heart, and as I grieve, I wanted to share my pain with others.I ask that everyone, today, take a moment of silence within themselves to honor not only the 100th year of the 1.5 million that were massacred, by Turkey, in what is considered a modern Genocide, but for others souls that have been lost in a genocide as well.An article was published by yahoo which does an excellent job in telling the story.