1931 Troup Corner House with Indoor Hot Tub and Screened Porch — $111,000

The indoor hot tub is the first thing that makes you pause. Someone at some point decided this house needed one, built it in, and here we are. It is not a common feature in a 93-year-old East Texas house at this price, and whether that sounds appealing or strange probably tells you a lot about whether this place is for you.

The house itself is from 1931, single-story, traditional in the way houses from that era tend to be. It sits on a 0.38-acre corner lot, which gives you more yard than most in-town properties and the kind of setback that makes a house feel like it has room to breathe. The lot runs about 16,500 square feet, rectangular, which means it is actually usable. Corners get light from two sides and tend to feel less hemmed in.

At 2,023 square feet, it is a decent amount of space for three bedrooms and two baths. $111,000 works out to roughly $54 a square foot, which is low enough that you can absorb some updating and still come out ahead of what you would pay to build anything from scratch.

The screened porch and covered patio are the outdoor features, and that combination matters in Texas. A screened porch in this part of the state means you can actually use it in the evenings when bugs are out. The covered patio extends that further. Two distinct outdoor spaces on a corner lot with 0.38 acres gives you options.

What the agent description does not say much about is the condition of the 1931 bones, the kitchen, the bathrooms, or what shape the interior is in beyond the hot tub mention. A house this age in this price range in a small East Texas town could be well-maintained and solid, or it could be a project. The listing does not tell you which, and you would need to find that out in person. What it does tell you is the square footage is real, the lot is big for the area, and the price leaves room.