1913 Rochester Home with New Furnace, A/C, and a Big Backyard — $139,500

The mechanicals on a house this age are usually the first thing you brace for. Here they're already handled. Brand-new furnace, brand-new central A/C, a hot water tank that's five years old. For a 1913 build, that's a meaningful amount of recent work in the places that tend to hurt the most. The seller is also throwing in a one-year home warranty, which on an older house gives you at least a year of breathing room.

The house is 1,421 square feet with three bedrooms and one and a half baths. That's a reasonable amount of space for the price, and the layout reads like what you'd expect from a house of this era: rooms with some definition to them rather than one blurred living area. New carpet is in, which either looks fine or doesn't depending on what you were hoping for under it, but it's done.

The backyard is big and almost fully fenced. Almost. So there's a section open somewhere, which matters if you have a dog or a kid who doesn't think about roads. Worth asking where the gap is and what it would take to close it. The yard itself sounds like it has actual room to it, which on a Rochester city lot isn't always the case.

Rochester winters are the reason you care about a furnace. The fact that this one is new means you're not walking into a heating season wondering whether something from the Clinton administration is going to hold. The A/C is less critical here than in a lot of markets, but having it at all in a house this old is a plus.

The listing is light on interior detail beyond the mechanicals and the carpet. You'd want to look at the bathroom, the kitchen, the condition of the original windows, and what the woodwork looks like. Houses from 1913 in Rochester can have good trim and solid construction underneath the updates. Whether that's the case here, the listing doesn't say.

Delayed negotiations are set for September 14, 2026 at noon.