1953 Edwards House on 3.8 Acres with a Backyard Pond — $145,000

The pond is the first thing. You walk out the back and there it is, sitting on your land, doing exactly what a pond does. That alone changes the character of this place. Three parcels, all adjoining, all coming with the sale, adding up to 3.8 acres in Edwards, Mississippi. The land is the real subject here.

The house is 1,320 square feet, built in 1953, two bedrooms and two full baths. The agent description calls it a fixer-upper and the seller is making no repairs, so go in with your eyes open. What that house becomes is your call, whether you renovate it or pull permits and build something new. Either path exists on land this size. At $109 a square foot, most of what you're paying for is the acreage and the water.

There are properties where the house is clearly the point. This is one where the land carries the story and the house is just part of what you're working with. That framing matters when you're deciding how much renovation makes sense versus starting fresh. The 1953 structure has been there long enough that it will tell you pretty quickly what it wants to be when you get inside it. Whether the bones support a real renovation or just a teardown is something a good inspector will settle faster than any listing description can.

Three parcels being sold together means you have some flexibility in how you think about the land over time, though any development path runs through zoning, permits, and whatever Hinds County approves. No guarantees there.

What you get at $145,000 is 3.8 acres, a pond, an existing structure with two full baths already in it, and room to figure out the rest. In rural Mississippi that buys a lot of quiet and a lot of options. Edwards sits in Hinds County, about 30 miles west of Jackson. The listing is thin on interior details, so plan a walk-through before you form strong opinions about the house itself.