1900 General Store, Bar, and Post Office on 0.74 Acres — $139,900

This building has been a lot of things. General store. Bar. Post office. All of that happened inside one structure that was already standing when the twentieth century started, and it is still standing in Bonanza, Oregon, on nearly three quarters of an acre of commercially zoned land.

The building runs 3,100 square feet, which is large for what most people would call a house, and makes more sense when you remember it was built to hold a community's worth of functions under one roof. The commercial transportation zoning is still in place, and the seller says the county has approved 8 to 10 RV or trailer hookups on the property, though engineered plans would need to go through the county before any of that moves forward. Two small outbuildings are included.

The agent description calls the interior solid but quirky and says it needs a lot of work. That is probably the most honest sentence in the listing. A 124-year-old mixed-use rural building for $139,900 in this condition is not a renovation project you hand off to a general contractor and walk away from. You would be making decisions constantly, about what to keep, what the space wants to be now, and how much of its past to leave visible. That is either the interesting part or the part that rules this out for you.

The RV hookup angle is worth thinking through if you have the appetite for permitting. Eight to ten sites with hookups along a rural highway corridor is a real income stream, not a hypothetical one, but it requires the engineering work and county approval to get there. The zoning makes it possible. The rest is on you.

What you are buying is a big, old, commercially zoned building with history in it and room on the lot to do something. It needs work. The price reflects that. If you have been looking for a place where the use is genuinely open and the bones predate almost everything around it, this is worth a serious look.