2,938 Square Feet in Pennsylvania. $79,900.

Twenty-seven dollars per square foot. That number is worth sitting with for a moment, because it's genuinely hard to find in 2024 — and this is nearly 3,000 square feet of it in Connellsville, Pennsylvania.

The house is a four-bedroom, two-bath built in 1950 with the kind of bones that make a renovation feel worthwhile rather than foolish. The layout makes sense: the kitchen anchors the main floor with a center island and real cabinet space, the laundry room sits right off the kitchen so it actually gets used, and the two-car attached garage means no scraping windshields in January. All four bedrooms and both full baths are upstairs, which gives the main floor room to breathe. Out back, 0.64 acres gives you genuine outdoor space without becoming a yard maintenance project.

Connellsville sits along the Youghiogheny River in Fayette County, about an hour southeast of Pittsburgh — close enough to matter, quiet enough to be worth it. The Great Allegheny Passage runs right through town, one of the premier rail trails in the country.

This one needs work, and the price reflects that honestly. But if you've been doing the math on what a full renovation costs versus what you'd pay for something already done, this is the kind of square footage that makes that math worth running.