1955 Chillicothe Home with Creek, Wooded Lot, and Original Woodwork — $125,000

The back of the lot is what gets you. There's a wooded area with a creek running through it, and at 0.83 acres total, you actually have room to get back there. From the raised patio, you can see it. The patio itself has an octagonal picnic table built into it, which is either your thing or it isn't, but the setup works for sitting outside.

The house was built in 1955 and the original woodwork is still intact throughout. That's the kind of thing that usually gets ripped out in a renovation, so finding it untouched is worth paying attention to. The rest of the interior is pretty simple: vinyl flooring, updated bathroom fixtures, newer ceiling fans. Nothing that will stop you in your tracks, but it's clean and functional. At 874 square feet and two bedrooms, one bath, this is a small house. You know that going in.

The covered front porch has a swing on it. The porch faces the road and gives you a different kind of outdoor space than the patio out back. There's a privacy fence along the side yard. The detached one-car garage handles parking or storage, whichever you need more of.

The house sits on a four-foot concrete block foundation, which is something to note. Worth a good look during inspection, as you would with any home of this age and this build type, but the agent description calls it well maintained and the woodwork being original and intact suggests the place has been looked after rather than ignored.

Immediate possession is available. For $125,000 in Chillicothe with a creek lot and original details still in place, the case for this one starts at the back of the property and works its way forward.