1961 Selma Ranch on 2.67 Wooded Acres with Fireplace and Garage — $139,900

The front living room is the reason to look at this house. It has a wood-burning fireplace and a run of windows that bring the outside in, and with 2.67 partially wooded acres out there, what comes in is worth seeing. That combination, fire on one wall and trees through the glass, is the thing this house does best.

It's a 1961 ranch with 1,753 square feet, three bedrooms, and one and a half baths. The layout gives you two separate living spaces. The front room with the fireplace and windows is one. There's a second family room toward the back of the house near the half bath. Having that second room matters if you need a place that can do more than one thing at once, a TV room that stays separate from where people sit and talk, or space for someone who keeps different hours.

The kitchen is described as generous, which is a real estate word for large. Take that for what it's worth until you see it yourself.

Central air and a gas furnace handle climate. The detached two-car garage gives you covered parking plus whatever storage a garage gets filled with over time.

The acreage is the other real argument for this place. Two and a half acres with some woods on it, in Selma, for $139,900 works out to about $79 a square foot. That's a low number for what you're getting in land alone. The property is in the Wapahani School District.

The agent copy mentions original character throughout, which is a phrase that can mean anything from good bones to deferred updates. The listing photos will tell you more than that phrase does. Go look at them before you form an opinion either way.

What this house has going for it is straightforward: the fireplace, the windows, the second living space, the garage, and the land. That's a reasonable set of things at this price.