Your assets shouldn’t be destroyed because somebody wasn’t as financially sound as you.

Even if the windows are boarded up, in a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane the roof may give in and destroy their stuff anyway through water damage.

persistence destroys resistance!

Because we’re currently living in it, doing full remodeling is a challenge,  so we haven’t even touched the bathroom or kitchen-and I hate them both…It was a ‘rent house’ and the previous owners didn’t do a lot in the way of improvements-somewhere along its lifetime an unskilled handyman did some rather creative and yet hideous work destroying the charm of a 1940 cottage!