And it isn't as bad as my sisters' purchases. One had had a Halloween party in it and had ghoulies and ghosties painted over the walls, which took about six coats of paint to cover. And a collapsing garden. And an unusable kitchen - this one's lovely. (Except I want to change the cooker.)
The other still has the builders in after six months - the prime thing, I think, is that a chimney had been cut through, leaving the upper part in the loft, supported by a thin rod, over a passage to a bedroom. As she said, there is nothing that wasn't in the survey, but everything is worse than the surveyor saw.
It's having to deal with it all by myself that makes it a bit daunting.