Two Lots. Circular Drive. Minutes to Kerr Lake. $85,500.

Two acres in Chase City, Virginia for $85,500. That's the number that made me look twice.

The property is actually two AG-zoned lots combined, which is what gets you to 2.05 acres. That zoning matters if you want animals, a garden operation, or just room to do what you want without a neighborhood association weighing in. The circular drive is already in, which sounds like a small thing until you're pulling in and out every day.

The house itself is 1,558 square feet, three bedrooms, one bath, built in 1956. So you have the bones of a mid-century build with some updates already done. The agent description is thin on specifics there, but the framing is that the work is started and what's left is finishing. At $54 a square foot, you have room in the budget to do that finishing on your own terms.

Location is genuinely useful here. Chase City puts you close to restaurants and medical without being in the middle of town. And Kerr Lake is just a few minutes away. That's a 50,000-acre reservoir that runs the Virginia-North Carolina line, with public boat ramps, fishing, and campgrounds. If water access matters to you and you can't afford to be on the water, being minutes from it is the next best thing. The Microsoft data center presence in the region has also changed the employment picture in Mecklenburg County over the last few years, which is worth knowing if you're thinking about resale down the road.

The honest read on this one is that it needs work. Some updates have been done and the rest is in front of you. But two lots, this much land, and that proximity to Kerr Lake at $85,500 is not a combination that comes up often in this part of Virginia.