Five Minutes from Gantt Lake. New Roof. $149,000.

A corner acre in Covington County, five minutes from the Gantt Lake public boat ramp, for $149,000. That proximity to the water is the thing to hold onto here.

The house is a 1984 three-bedroom, one-bath, 1,200 square feet on a full acre at the corner of the lot. The land gives you room to park a boat trailer without it being a whole production, and there's space to spread out in ways that a smaller lot just doesn't allow. Gantt Lake is a 6,000-acre reservoir on the Conecuh River, so you're not talking about a small pond. You're talking about a real lake, with boating and fishing, and a public ramp close enough that getting out on the water doesn't require planning your whole day around it.

Inside, the updates are recent and they cover the things that matter. The roof is brand new metal, which in south Alabama weather is the right call and the kind of thing that can follow you on a homeowners insurance policy in a good way. The flooring throughout is new LVP. Interior and exterior paint are both fresh. The kitchen appliances are new. A new HVAC is listed as coming soon, so that conversation is already on the table.

What you have is a house that has been addressed. Not renovated into something it's not, just brought up to where the systems and surfaces are not going to hand you a bill the first year. The bones from 1984 are still what they are, but the things you'd otherwise be replacing have already been replaced.

At $149,000 you're getting a three-bedroom house on an acre, in working condition, with a new roof over it and a lake five minutes down the road.