1940 Wing Home, 3,608 Square Feet on Half an Acre — $75,000

At roughly $21 a square foot, this is the kind of number that makes you look twice. 3,608 square feet in a 1940 one-and-a-half-story on half an acre in Wing, North Dakota, for $75,000. You can do the math however you want and it keeps coming out the same way.

The house has two bedrooms on the main floor and a third upstairs. One full bath, also on the main floor. The kitchen has an eat-in setup, and laundry is on the main floor too, which matters more than people admit until they're hauling laundry up and down stairs somewhere else. The upstairs has a lot of closets, which is worth saying plainly because storage in older homes is usually the first thing to go wrong.

The basement is unfinished. That's a significant portion of that square footage sitting open, and what you do with it depends on what you need. Workshop space, storage, a project over time. The structure is there.

Out back there's a one-stall attached garage with a workshop added to the rear. That's a real workspace, not a shelf and a pegboard. Half an acre gives you room around the house without putting you in the middle of nowhere.

Wing sits about 45 minutes from Bismarck and 20 miles from I-94. Hunting, fishing, and camping are close. If that's why you'd be out here, the location works. If you need to be in Bismarck regularly, 45 minutes is 45 minutes and you should weigh that honestly.

The agent description is thin on condition details. There's no mention of the roof, mechanicals, windows, or when anything was last updated. For an 84-year-old house at this price, those are the questions you'd want answered before you drive out. But the price already accounts for a lot.