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I’m thinking of purchasing a brownstone that is part of an estate sale and has been empty for a while–quite abandoned, actually. It has a lot of great detail. A friend told me he had heard that these types of homes are regularly broken into and original architectural elements are stripped. How can I make sure this doesn’t happen with this home, if I do indeed purchase it? Do I need to make an inventory of everything I see to make sure it’s still there when I do a walk-through?