Damn! You brought on a flash back about the time I bought Condo in a Repo sale in East San Jose.
When I started to clean the place up I had a hell of a time with the kitchen range unit. It was so full of bake on shit, no way could a get that cleaned out in place.
I took it outside to small strip between the living area and the garage, where I took a high pressure washer to the stove. Got the sucker clean, but it never worked again.
And that's is the way that project started and it didn't let up. I think I worked butt off on that Condo, for about 2 months, and then sold it. That's the only part
that worked out right, it sold in two days. Thank goodness! Made about $4500 hundred on the deal but never have worked more for so little. That was the last of my repo ventures.