Buying as-is did mean accepting an ancient furnace, a cracked window and a leaking roof on the detached garage.

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Oil was discovered leaking from a generator on an engine at a Japanese airport, and a crack appeared in a cockpit window of a plane en route from Tokyo to western Japan, a spokeswoman for All Nippon Airways said.

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