comment: I'm more annoyed by house flipping companies doing this bullshit. 
  Step 1: Use your capital to outbid individual home buyers on a cheap $150k historic home 
  Step 2: strip out or cover up all of the historic features, paint all of the walls a cool grey, install subway tile everywhere, glaze all of the showers.
  Step 3: Put it immediately back on the market noting the "upgrades" for $250k
  Step 4: An individual owner buys the thing and has to spend $50k undoing all of the damage.