Evidently that happened a year before I bought the place 30 years ago and the kitchen floor was replaced, but not by me. I've had the well compressor shut down during electric outages, which happens at least three times a year or more in this entire area, but I just have to crawl under the house and reset it (leaving a faucet open to avoid an air lock).
I've had the monitor for heat for about 15 years now (eliminating very old baseboard 220 heaters that were dangerous and actually caused one fire in the old upstairs bedroom 25 years ago) and since I moved the kitchen sink about that time to an outside wall where it was originally when the house was built in 1946. There was a working gravity reservoir behind the house that was the main source of indoor water until a well was dug two years before I bought the place. That reservoir was still supplying water to the washing machine for the first two years I was here but has since been caved in and all new plumbing to get rid of the old galvanized that was pretty unstable was done little by little and completed 15 years ago when I had the entire second floor ripped off and replaced with a new 30x35 room with full bathroom now, so there are two bathrooms now. Heat upstairs is now available, all baseboard heaters were ripped out downstairs, two new rooms built onto the downstairs so I have a pantry and a spare room for freezers and storage space since there is no basement or attic here. What started out as an 800sqft old farmhouse is now over 2000sqft with many changes even to the downstairs. I still can't install a wood stove here because of the wall construction and code issues (no chimney since it was eliminated when the upstairs was redone) requiring that the pipe go above the roof line and close proximity of the trees around the house and the fencelines, but there are options for that as well should I seriously consider it later on. Considering that I only paid $45K for 23 acres and the house 30 years ago, the investments made in improvements here over time have been well worth all of them. Obviously I don't have central air since there is no furnace thus no ductwork, but being in a valley on my property brings in much cooler breezes than my neighbors get, I get to hear two creeks on either side of the house run, deer hunting is pretty abundant (Derek and his son got 6 last season), the dogs have a virtual playground and not a fenced in cage, gardens are a joy, and sitting on a porch glider listening to the variety of birds is a pleasure I don't take for granted.
The point I'm making is this....if someone wants something badly enough the WAIT to do it RIGHT is worth it. Because I don't live near enough to people to have them looking over my shoulder there is plenty here that I could have done by cutting corners and going against the legal codes and nobody would have been the wiser....but everything I've done to make my life better and easier has been done the LEGAL way, even though it took more time. Those in the caravan should have applied legally for asylum in their own country or accepted Mexico's offer......and wait their turn like other emigrants have had to and been willing to because the rewards of living here are worth it.