When you are looking for homes, some people fall in love with the charm of an old house, but in most homes I have inspected from around the 1850's, unless it has a proper foundation, you may find an original stacked stone foundation like this one.
This one needs major structural repairs.
On Long Island, a large sand bar, there is usually water damage found in the basement and you can sometimes pull rocks right out of the mortar joints. The wood structure above in this house is also heavily dry-rotted, and jack posts with no fasteners were also found.
This house is selling for over $1.2 mil, and although beautiful, signs of current water intrusion and a wet-dry vac in the area indicate this house has long standing water intrusion issues which have caused the mortar to disintegrate.
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