re: At what point does a house become too much of a fixer upper that it’s restrictive?

Make sure before you do any renovations you fix the “guts”. We did something similar and fixed our house but it had polybutylene pipes in it. We didn’t change the pipes because they weren’t leaking but now insurance won’t cover any claims due to it. We are having to Repipe our house for $15k and that doesn’t even cover the drywall repair. Fun times.