1900 Melvina Home with Four Bedrooms and Steel Roof — $149,900

Four bedrooms in a 1900-built house on nearly half an acre in small-town Wisconsin for under $150,000. That is the whole pitch, and it does not need one.

Melvina is a quiet village in Monroe County, just south of I-90, which puts you close to a highway without living next to one. The street is low traffic. The front yard is fully fenced, and there is a covered front porch across the front of the house. The lot is 0.42 acres, which gives you real outdoor space without being unmanageable.

The floor plan puts the kitchen, dining area, living room, and two bedrooms all on the main level. The kitchen has newer cabinets and a breakfast bar. The flooring throughout the main floor has been updated to LVP. Two more bedrooms are upstairs, which means you have genuine separation between sleeping spaces. That matters in a four-bedroom house with one bathroom. There is also a rear patio and a carport for storage.

The steel roof is the most significant thing to notice here. On a house built in 1900, the roof is the first place deferred maintenance shows up and the most expensive thing to deal with if it has been ignored. A steel roof means that cost is not coming toward you anytime soon. The updated cabinets and new flooring suggest someone has been paying attention to the interior as well, though the listing does not specify when those updates were done.

One bathroom for four bedrooms is worth knowing going in. But the structure is solid, the updates are real, and the house is 124 years old and still standing on nearly half an acre in a neighborhood that by all accounts is quiet and well-kept.

At $149,900, you are getting 1,488 square feet, four bedrooms, a covered porch, a fenced yard, a carport, and a steel roof on a lot that gives you room to breathe. In Monroe County, Wisconsin, in 2024, that is a lot of house for that number.