1905 Fairmount Story-and-a-Half with Triple Garage on Half an Acre — $79,900

The garage situation here is what gets your attention first. A detached single and a detached double, side by side on a 0.51-acre lot. That is three vehicle bays plus whatever else you want to do with the space. Workshop, storage, project cars, none of those are a stretch with that kind of room. For a property under $80K, that setup alone is worth looking at.

The house is a 1905 story-and-a-half. Main floor runs about 800 square feet, second floor adds roughly 300 more. Four bedrooms in 1,088 square feet total means the rooms are small, which is just the reality of how houses were built that year. One bathroom. The agent description says the home is functionally in good condition but needs cosmetic work, specifically paint and flooring. That is the kind of honest signal that tells you the structure and mechanicals are holding up, but the surfaces have some years on them. Go in expecting to put work in.

The lot is generous for a small town. Half an acre gives you real outdoor space, and with two separate garage structures already on the property, there is infrastructure in place that would cost real money to build from scratch. If you are the kind of person who needs room to spread out, store things, or run a side project out of your own space, this property has that.

The house itself is what it is: an old North Dakota home that has been standing since 1905, that needs freshening up, and that comes in at a price that leaves room in the budget to do it. Four bedrooms for two people means you have flex space. Four bedrooms for a family means everyone fits. The floor plan is tight by modern standards, but the lot and the outbuildings give you the breathing room the interior square footage does not.

At $79,900 in Fairmount, the math on this one is pretty straightforward.