Repairing or renovating your old home can be done by the average person with little to no skills since plumbing has come a long way, no longer having copper grade pipes. Now we have pex pipes and shark bite fittings, tools for any application. Basic tools are hammer, saw, screw gun, square, level, tape measure and pencil and more you tube video's than you can handle.
1950 home at purchase
This is a 1950 built home that I renovated completely by myself ,I purchased the property for 60,000 and put 50,000 into it. Estimated value now 185,000 - 240,000, 10 more reno's to come.