One just needs to go to Rome and see where modern Rome is built on top of ancient Rome.

Many will sign a lease without reading it properly and end up paying all sorts of ridiculous fees, $75 chimney cleaning fee although they never used the fireplace, $150 carpet cleaning fee for ancient old carpet, etc.    

In the book, they say “he who chases two rabbits catches neither.”An ancient Chinese proverb, I guess.

@Luis Ramirez1956 isn't too ancient, but you do run the risk of dealing with asbestos and lead.

We have some interesting (and ancient!)

If someone offered to sell you a car for $500, you would (hopefully) rightly wonder just what kind of ancient and horrible junk it was; the same is true of land costs that sound far, far, far too good to be true in a place where one would expect it to cost at least 10 times that.Also, have you included earthquake insurance in your estimates? 

In my area, homes that were built before 2000 are considered ancient, therefore, repair costs differ from one area to the next.

Back then slavery was common and not forced like it was during modern times.You volunteer as a slave back then and when your time as a slave was up you were released from your duties and went on with your business.So slavery back during ancient times was beneficial and common.Now something too think about.

Very little ancient inventory to tear down or rebuild. 

The third house came with a DVD player but it was so ancient I tossed it.