1910 Gaston Home with Sunroom, Gas Fireplace, and Updated Systems — $150,000

The sunroom is the first thing worth your attention here. On a house this old, a sunroom usually means someone added it decades ago and it's been slowly losing the fight ever since. This one reads as a genuine extra room, the kind of space you'd actually use rather than store things in while you figure out what to do with it.

The house is from 1910, which in Indiana means it's had time to either fall apart or get taken care of. This one has been taken care of. The HVAC, plumbing, and electrical have all been updated, which on a 115-year-old house is the difference between a project and a place you can move into without immediately calling contractors. Fresh paint throughout as well.

Inside you get 1,533 square feet across three bedrooms and one bath. The living room has a gas fireplace, which on a cold Indiana night is a reason to be in that room. Laundry is in two places, the basement and the main floor, which is either redundant or convenient depending on how you think about it. The basement hookup gives you flexibility.

The garage is a single car. For a house this age, having any garage at all is something. Parking one car out of the weather is not nothing.

The lot and the neighborhood context aren't detailed in the listing, so there's not much to say there beyond what you can see in a satellite view. Gaston is a small town in Delaware County. The address is on Elm, which on most Midwestern grids puts you somewhere central.

At $150,000 for a house with this much mechanical work already done, you're not buying a restoration project. The bones have been addressed. What you're inheriting is the upside of a 1910 build, the fireplace, the sunroom, the proportions that older houses tend to have, without the full weight of its deferred maintenance.