1890 Berlin Home with Attached Garage and Four Bedrooms — $90,000

Four bedrooms in 1,050 square feet is tight. That math means small rooms, and you should go in knowing it. But the house has been standing since 1890, and at $90,000 in New Hampshire, the numbers are hard to ignore.

The enclosed front porch is the first thing you notice from the street. On a house this old, that kind of addition usually got tacked on somewhere in the middle decades of the last century, and it gives the front of the place a layered, lived-in look. Whether you use it as a mudroom, a sitting room, or just a place to leave boots, it adds usable square footage without counting toward the official number.

Inside, the layout runs six rooms across two floors. The main level has a half bath, which helps when you have four bedrooms sharing a single full bath upstairs. That full bath on the second floor is going to be the bottleneck in a household with more than two people, so go in clear-eyed about that.

The attached garage is the part that surprised me on a house built this old. Pre-1900 homes almost never came with them, so this was added later, and it connects to the basement, which gives you interior access below grade. For storage, for a workshop, for getting through a New Hampshire winter without standing in the cold to start your car, that matters.

The house is close to schools, which the listing flags, and the neighborhood is straightforward residential Berlin. The city has a long history as a mill town and the housing stock reflects it, older buildings, modest lots, working-class roots.

At 134 years old, this house almost certainly has lead paint somewhere. That is standard disclosure territory for anything built before 1978, and you budget and test accordingly. What you get in return is a structure with real age to it, on a street with a consistent scale, at a price that leaves room to work.