My house is 1923 but doesn't have the delightful built-ins some of the bungalows, arts and crafts and Spanish revivals have. I actually put them in myself but they look like they've always been here.

I would love to buy a property like that and bring it back as long as it hasn't been bastardized. Neglected can be renovated. But once they cut it up and such, you have almost no way of knowing what was there, what it looked like or how to restore it.

At least if you won the lottery you'd probably be able to get it for a song for the condition it's in. Sounds like that couple will be losing it to foreclosure soon.