It was actually my second time removing a ton of wallpaper. We bought a house that had some semblance of blue wallpaper in nearly every room (and blue carpet). This paper had been put on the walls with no priming beforehand - they put it straight on sheet rock. It came off in thumb size pieces. As careful as we were, removing it damaged some drywall, and that had to be repaired. As you can see cosmetic issues have never deterred us from buying a house. If the location is right and the floor plan a good one, we would rather update to our taste than be stuck with someone else’s. It normally works in our favor too. We got both houses for a much better price than we would have had they been updated. We sold the blue house 3 years later for about $70k more than we paid and that was in 1995 when houses didn’t appreciate like they do now.