, I picked up a book she had gotten as a present, called What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England, by Daniel Pool.

Over the last century, the most used approaches to creating value have been somewhere in middle, where some expertise is required.In this chapter, we will look at two approaches to creating value that require different levels of expertise and investment horizons.

In one particular instance my town received hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up the site of a former grand hotel from the turn of the nineteenth century that had been abandoned with full above ground and below ground oil tanks.

The old turn of the century (the last century) architecture in some of the lower-income areas of Richmond and Petersburg is truly striking. 

I went from a local real estate office to Century 21 on Long Island.

And these are some very old people with good memories.During the same half century, there have always been the outliers claiming that this time it will be different and have consistently been wrong.  

You can get the deal of the century and lose your shirt.

Baltimore City data hasn't been encouraging over the last several years - population is shrinking (they saw their biggest drop last year and lowest pop. in a century), crime continues to spike (300+ homicides a year), and businesses are leaving.  

Those are great opportunities for value add without the uncertainty (or experience) of working with century old properties. 

city county state regulators generally don't enforce deed restrictions.its up to the community were the restrictions are placed.. if its just one parcel with the restrictions.. you as declarant would have the right to defend thembut no one else if they are not subject to the same deed restrictions.it goes both ways.you look at CCRs from the turn of the century up until about the 50s  and there are all sorts of un enforceable things.having to do with Race religion  Chickens Pigs other live stock..