I know, there's actually this room dedicated to the awful smell of the thing- if the door is left ajar for a day, especially in warm weather the entire basement and laundry room smell for weeks, open windows and those yellow industrial vornados repeatedly moved around and five bottles of febreeze literally are needed.

Retrofitting the iron radiators and the wood floor under them turned out to be about three times the downtime and cost I could have imagined, it's something to think about but the place is over a century old, you just have to deal with shit like some rooms having terrible light fixtures and one half-bathroom sink having weird hot/cold knobs. And wax floors which I've come to get a perverse satisfaction doing myself with amber Boston polish, briwax and a tiny amount of beeswax.

But shit like window sashes failing all the time, etc. Just blow