1910 Perry Home on an Acre, Steps from Mark Twain Lake — $139,000

The lot is what gets your attention first. An acre on Main Street is a lot of room, and this one comes with a detached garage and a storage shed already on it. For anyone who wants space to spread out, keep a boat, or just have a yard that doesn't end at the neighbor's fence line, that matters.

The house itself is a 1910 two-bedroom, one-bath, 826 square feet. Small, old, and straightforward. The agent description is thin, so there's a limit to what can be said about the interior specifically, but at 114 years old the house has the kind of age that either means there's something interesting going on with the original details or it means there's work to be done. Probably some of both.

Perry sits close to Mark Twain Lake, which is the recreational pull for the area. If you're thinking about this as a lake-area base, the proximity makes sense. A boat in the garage, a full acre to come home to.

At $139,000, the price works out to under $170 a square foot, which for a recreational lake area is on the low end. The acre alone carries a good portion of that. The house is what it is, small and old, but the land and location are doing real work here.

If 826 square feet sounds tight, it is. Two bedrooms and one bath in a 1910 house means the rooms are small by current standards, and there's no buffer if you need an office or a guest room. But if the square footage works for your life, or if you're thinking about this as a part-time place near the lake, the rest of the picture comes together. An acre, a garage, a shed, and a century-old house in a lake town for $139,000.