9.3 Wooded In-Town Acres, Brick and Metal Roof — $147,000

Nine and a third acres inside city limits is the thing that stops you here. That does not happen often. Most in-town lots are measured in tenths. This one is measured in acres, and the house sits back from the road with woods around it, which means you get the practical side of being in town without the feeling of being on top of your neighbors.

The house itself is brick with a metal roof, which tells you something about durability. Brick and metal are the two materials most people wish they had when it comes time to deal with weather or maintenance. What you have here is a structure that has held up on the outside. The inside is a different conversation. The listing calls it a fixer-upper and says it needs work, and they mean it. There are no before photos here that make you think the work is cosmetic. Plan accordingly and budget honestly.

The layout gives you four bedrooms and two baths, which is a real amount of house. There is an attached carport and a rear porch. Those are the details the listing offers, and the agent description does not go further than that, so neither will I. Square footage and year built were not provided, which limits how precisely you can picture the rooms. That is worth knowing before you make a trip out.

What you are really buying is the land. Nine-plus wooded acres in town is the kind of thing people spend years looking for and still do not find. You could clear some of it, leave most of it, add a structure, run animals on it, or simply have more space around you than anyone on your street. The house is the starting point, not the selling point. If the land fits what you need and you have the appetite for a project, the price of $147,000 for that much wooded acreage in an in-town location makes the work easier to justify.

Go see it with a contractor.