Questions for the masses

I doubt I will buy another person's project car again. My current duster "project" has been a complete nightmare. So much crap work was hidden by the p.o. until I started working on it, it really started to surface. Ex// complete floorpan was installed, seamsealed and painted. Looked nice, but i couldn't find the seatbelt holes. Started scraping and uncovered sheet metal screws holding the floor in. The entire floor! Not 1 weld. That was just the beginning of the chaos of **** work that was done. I ended up gutting the entire care to the bare shell and started from scratch. I would rather have a untouched, rusted mess with a blown motor, than another person's unfinished project again.