1914 Independence Corner Lot with Porch, Hardwood, and Garage — $79,500

The front porch is the first thing you notice. It's large, it wraps the corner, and on a corner lot it catches light and air from two sides. That's a porch you actually use. The house sits on that corner in Independence, Kansas, and it was built in 1914, so there's real age in the walls and floors.

Inside, the hardwood runs through the main living areas and it's the kind of detail that holds up when everything else around it gets updated. The living room and dining room are separate rooms, which matters if you've spent any time in houses where those two spaces got smashed together. There's a decorative fireplace in there. It's not a working fireplace, but it's original to the house and it gives the room a focal point it would otherwise lack.

The kitchen has been updated. The listing doesn't say when or how extensively, so take that for what it is. What's clear is that it's been touched more recently than 1914. Flooring varies through the house, hardwood in some rooms, vinyl in others, carpet somewhere. That's typical for a house this age that's had a few different owners make a few different decisions.

Three bedrooms, two full baths, and a bonus room behind the main living space. The garage is a single car and you reach it through that back room, which is an unusual arrangement but not unworkable.

The basement is partial and unfinished. Good for storage, not finished living space. Central heat and air is in place. The roof is about ten years old, composition shingle, so you're not looking at that line item anytime soon.

At $79,500 for a 1914 house on a corner lot with a porch like that, hardwood floors, and a roof that still has years left on it, the math is straightforward. The house has age and the kind of structure that comes with it. What you'd be buying is real.