1This good to see this old house really. The simple exterior of this Toronto hidden gem. For real estate agents, it is always a gamble when they walk into an older home. House can be in disarray and disrepair after years of neglect. Or, the house can be completely surprising on the inside. When Gladys and Carla Spizzirri, two Toronto-based real estate agents, were contacted by a 96-year-old woman who wanted to sell her home, they didn’t expect much. The seamstress wanted to sell her decades-old home and she invited the agents over to check out her house.