590 Sq Ft Treehouse-Style Cabin Bordering National Forest — $79,500

The thing that gets you here is the location. Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, right up against National Forest. Whatever is on the other side of that property line is not going to be developed. That matters a lot when you are buying something this small.

590 square feet. Two levels, built in 1982, and the agent calls it treehouse-style, which seems accurate enough based on what's here. There are porches on the front and side. Multiple windows. The kind of place where the outside is really the point and the inside is where you sleep and get out of the rain.

The kitchen has a refrigerator and some cooking setup, but there is space and hookups for a cooktop and oven that are not there yet. So you would need to add those. The appliances described as new are a stackable washer and dryer, and they are in the outbuilding rather than the main cabin. Worth knowing before you picture where laundry fits.

The outbuilding doubles as guest sleeping space. So you have 590 square feet in the main structure and a separate place to put someone else when they visit. For a property this size, that is a meaningful addition.

Two beds, one bath. The listing does not say how the square footage breaks across floors, so you would want to see it in person to understand how the rooms actually feel. At 590 square feet, nothing is going to be large, but small can work fine if the layout is sensible.

At $79,500, this is a what-if kind of purchase. What if you wanted a place in the mountains that you did not have to maintain year-round? What if you hunt, or hike, or just want somewhere that is genuinely quiet and smells like pine trees? The cabin is the reason to look. The National Forest boundary is the reason to buy.