I once showed an old farm house that was originally from the 1850s, but had most recently been renovated around the late 1990s. It still needed a lot of work as it was now a bank owned property, and my clients were pursuing it as a renovation project of their own. Overall the house was in pretty good shape aside from it smelling like 15 wet dogs had lived there. One of the primary supports of the house was starting to crumble, so instead of fixing it the right way with a new footer and replacing the beam, they just took a car jack and jacked the wall right up!