1920 Clarksburg Two-Story with New Roof and Covered Porch — $80,000

The covered front porch is the first thing. It runs across the front of the house, and on a street of older homes in Clarksburg, it looks right. This is a 1920 build, two stories, 1,368 square feet, and the age shows in the way the place is put together — more rooms with defined purposes, walls where walls belong.

There are two bedrooms and two full baths. The kitchen is described as spacious, which at least means it registers. Past it is a formal dining room, a separate space for a table and chairs and people sitting down to eat. That kind of layout is common in houses from this era and a lot of people have knocked those walls out over the decades, so finding one intact is worth something if you eat with other people.

The roof is new. That is a real number in the maintenance column that someone already paid.

Out back there is a fully fenced yard. The agent copy mentions pets, gardening, outdoor activities, which is the standard list, but a fenced yard in a city lot is a practical thing regardless of what you do with it.

At $80,000 for 1,368 square feet, you are under $60 per square foot. In Clarksburg, in a house that has a new roof and has been standing since 1920, that is a low number. The house has Route 50 nearby, which is the main east-west corridor through this part of West Virginia, so you are not isolated.

The agent description is thin on interior detail beyond the dining room and kitchen, so there is not much to say about finishes or condition room by room. What the listing gives you is a 104-year-old house with its bones intact, a porch out front, a fenced yard out back, a new roof overhead, and a price that leaves room for whatever work it turns out to need.