Dead-End Street, Double Lot, New Roof and Windows Already Done — $110,000

The updates are already behind you. New roof, new water heater, new pressure tank, new windows, new flooring. On a house at this price, that list matters. Someone came in and did the work, and now you get to walk into a place that's had real money spent on it recently.

The house is a 1956 two-bedroom, one-bath on Cedar Road just west of Manistique in Thompson. 1,020 square feet. It's on a dead-end street and it's the last house on the right, so the only traffic is people who live there or people coming to see you. The lot is a double plus an extra 20 feet along the west side, which adds up to roughly 0.46 acres. For a house this size, that's a lot of breathing room.

Inside, the kitchen, living, and dining areas run together into one main space. It reads large for the square footage. The bedrooms are on the bigger side, which you notice because small houses often sacrifice bedroom size for common areas and this one didn't. Laundry is tucked away from the main living areas, which means the machines aren't sitting in your sightline when you're in the kitchen.

The agent description calls it "surprisingly spacious," and that's the kind of phrase that usually means the opposite. In this case the layout actually supports it. The 1,020 square feet is accounted for well.

Manistique sits on Lake Michigan, and Thompson is right next to it. The Upper Peninsula in general is not for everyone, winters being what they are, but people who want land, quiet, and outdoor access at a reasonable price keep finding their way up here. At $110,000 with the major updates already done, this is a house you could move into without immediately writing a second check to a contractor.

The agent description is thin on specifics beyond the update list, so there's not much more to say about the interior details. But the bones of the deal are clear enough: small house, good lot, recent work done, quiet street.