1969 Off-Grid Cascade River Cabin with Solar, Views, and Materials Included — $59,000

The price is $59,000 and it comes in below assessed value. That's the first thing to sit with. For that, you get a 256-square-foot cabin built in 1969, elevated on a forested slope above the Cascade River outside Marblemount, Washington, with partial views of the river and the mountains around it.

The cabin has a covered deck in the tree canopy. That's where you're going to spend most of your time anyway, so it matters that it's wide and covered. Inside is simple: a sleeping loft, a full-size propane range, and a woodstove. At 256 square feet, there's not much more to say about the floor plan.

What makes this property unusual is how far along the infrastructure is for something this small and this cheap. Solar panels are already installed. There's a gas generator. On-demand hot water. A composting toilet. The cabin is wired for generator with batteries. You can use it now, off-grid, without doing anything. Most properties at this price point need significant work before they're livable in any season. This one you can sleep in tonight.

The sale also includes building materials, which is a detail worth understanding. There's Pergo flooring and milled fir and pine siding, and reportedly enough siding to cover the whole cabin. So if you want to renovate rather than use it as-is, the materials are already there. Someone put those together at some point and didn't finish the job. That's the scenario you're buying into.

Marblemount is the last town before the North Cascades Highway heads into the mountains, which means hiking, fishing, and river access are close. The cabin sits above the road, so the treetop feel is real and the road noise is low. Year-round access is listed, with no restrictions on length of stay.

There's also an adjacent lot available separately under MLS 2512744 if you want more room.

At 256 square feet this will always be a small cabin. But it's functional, it has views, it has off-grid systems already running, and it's priced under what the county says it's worth.