Historic, Garage, Finished Basement, Character Home
1916 Chloride Mining-Town Home, Half-Acre, Shop with Basement — $139,900
6
out of 10
HousesUnder150K Score
Property Merit 50% · Condition 25% · Price/Sq Ft 15% · Market 10%
| Category | Wt. | Score | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property Merit | 50% | 7 | 1916 mining-town home, 0.45 acres, garage, shop/basement, greenhouse, sunroom, 4 patios |
| Condition | 25% | 6 | No system dates given; cosmetic details described, unknown roof/HVAC status |
| Price / Sq Ft | 15% | 5 | Listing $129/sqft; zip median PSF unavailable — scored neutral |
| Price vs. Market | 5% | 2 | Listed 73% above $81K zip median — caution: 1 sale/month, thin data |
| Market Conditions | 5% | 9 | 81.1% sale-to-list, 66% price drops, 92 DOM — strong buyer's market |
Chloride is one of Arizona's oldest continuously inhabited towns, and this house has been standing in it since 1916. That's the first thing that gets your attention. It's a two-bedroom, one-bath, 1,088 square feet, and by the numbers it's a small house. But the lot is nearly half an acre, and the structures on it tell a different story about how the place actually lives.
There's a detached garage. There's a shop with a basement. There's a greenhouse. There are four separate outdoor spaces: a covered front patio, a back deck, a side patio, and a sunroom off the primary bedroom with windows on most walls. For a 1,088-square-foot house, there's a lot to work with outside of it. Someone who gardens, builds things, collects things, or just wants to spread out across a property has real room to do that here.
Inside, the layout is what you'd expect from a house this age and size: living room, dining room, kitchen, two bedrooms, one full bath with a tub-shower combo, and laundry with cabinet space. The kitchen has a garden window above the sink. The agent mentions "fun wall colors," which is a diplomatic way of saying whoever lives there now has opinions about paint. That's easy to change.
The condition picture is incomplete. No dates are given for the roof, HVAC, or any major systems. The cosmetics are described in some detail; the mechanicals are not mentioned at all. That's a gap worth closing before anything else.
On price: the zip median for a sale here runs around $81,000, and this is listed at $139,900, which is a meaningful gap. But Chloride has thin transaction volume, roughly one sale a month, so the median is easy to distort in either direction. What's clear is that this is a strong buyer's market: 81% sale-to-list ratio, 66% of listings seeing price drops, and homes sitting for about 92 days on average. There's room to negotiate. How much room depends on what the inspection turns up.
A 109-year-old house on a half-acre with a shop, greenhouse, and basement storage in a historic Arizona mining town. At the right number, that's a lot of property.
