Free Natural Gas on 3.61 Acres, Ranch with Fireplace and Basement — $149,900

The free natural gas is the thing. In West Virginia, natural gas rights sometimes convey with a property, and when they do, you heat the house for nothing. That's the situation here. A 1950 ranch on 3.61 acres in Arnoldsburg with gas that costs you zero dollars a month to run. On a fixed income, or just trying to keep monthly overhead low, that changes the math on this place considerably.

The house itself is a straightforward single-story layout at 1,504 square feet. Three bedrooms, one full bath, a family room with a fireplace, a dining room, a kitchen with decent cabinet space, and a laundry and mud room that's big enough to actually use as one. The attached one-car garage means you're walking into the house without going outside, which matters in a West Virginia winter.

Below all of that is a full basement. Unfinished basements in older ranch houses like this one tend to be where the mechanicals live, and the listing notes the central heating and cooling was recently updated, so you're not inheriting an ancient system. The drilled water well means you're on your own supply.

Outside, 3.61 acres gives you room. The listing mentions the possibility of a garden or chickens, which is a reasonable read of the space. There's also a detached 12x16 shed on the property. The house sits directly along US Route 33, so access is easy and the road is not remote, though that also means you have road noise to factor in depending on how much traffic moves through that corridor.

The price was reduced to $149,900. For a ranch with a basement, a garage, acreage, and free gas, that's a combination that's hard to assemble for less in this part of the state.