We owned a farmhouse my husband’s grandmother gifted him, but we moved away and slowly started falling apart.
We eventually agreed that the best thing to do was renovate and sell it.
The furnace was old when he inherited the house, and the few times we were there, we’d tried to get the heating specialist to perform a heating repair on it, but something would go wrong each time. Eventually, we agreed that what we needed was a new HVAC installation. The fireplace had been abandoned for years before he got the house, so it had to be demolished or redone. We planned to remove the brick and install an electric heater instead. Other things needed to be restored, but the house wouldn’t sell if we didn’t work on the heating equipment, making it a major part of the remodeling of the farmhouse. My husband was doing most of it independently, but the heating device work had been assigned to the HVAC professional from the local heating dealership. We already had a prospective buyer, so we got the heating company working while my husband was handling the rest of the renovations. The buyer pulled out before we were done, saying that he feared that the house would give him heating maintenance troubles and some other old house problems despite our assurance that we had a heating technician working to ensure everything heating and cooling related was replaced with new equipment. We even got a smart thermostat to make it more attractive to the buyer, but it wasn’t meant to be. The farmhouse remained listed for another month after we finished renovations before we finally found a buyer.