Just an observation:

[shirenomad]

This house is old. It's well-kept, so I didn't notice at all until I actually moved in, but it's about as old a house as you can expect in Orange County. The stovetop requires actual matches to light. My room needed a whole mess of two-prong to three-prong adapters and the cable line had obviously been punched through the wall by someone other than a professional. The brick in the kitchen wall isn't false; it's real brick (although there's another layer between said brick and the outside). The garage is a separate structure from the house proper. And there's little signs of wear and tear if you look closely; thankfully, nothing you notice from a distance unless you're anal about paint jobs and the like, which I'm not.