Yes, but if you're talking about Century, FL - that's a small town on the border with Georgia and I had to scale my googlemaps back quite a bit before I found a town of any significant size.  

"I have another offer and need your highest and best" is probable the most frequently used lie of any agent today.Someone I know had an offer in on a REO, it was over 25% below the list, they came back wanting 'highest and best' because of 'multiple offers',,he stayed with his  original offer,,,,he told me he would never trust another agent  saying they had  multiple offers again.Now the funny part, he was a real estate broker that owned a Century 21 office for over 30 years and had recently sold it to spend less time working, if anyone knows agents, he does

It's like the 21st century asbestos.

As early as the 16th century, the concept of property being held in trust by one person for the benefit of another was part of the English Common Law.

I am not going after turn of the century Victorian only small rentals. 

https://www.news-gazette.com/news/champaigns-kraft-plant-celebrates-half-century-mark/article_20700102-2787-505e-84ed-e15ffa50bfa8.html

More likely scenario is that old tenants were using a cable modem like everyone else in the 21st century.

I'd put in 15k or so plus six months of sweat, blood, whatever it took to restore some rock solid mid century beauty.

🤔Real Estate still continues to be one of the surest of all asset classes in the world and it has been for centuries!

I am new to REI but I live in Flint, MI and my house was under $70K (mid-century modern behind a major teaching hospital and less than 10 minute drive to 4 colleges / universities).