1855 Virginia Farmhouse on 1.8 Acres with New Septic — $102,000

The house is 169 years old. That's the thing you sit with first. Built in 1855, which means it predates the Civil War, and it's still standing on 1.8 acres in Susan, Virginia. Whatever it's been through, structurally it held.

It's a farmhouse, 1,666 square feet, three bedrooms and one bath. At $102,000 that works out to about $61 a square foot, which reflects where the house is in its life right now. The agent description says it needs a lot of work, and you should take that seriously. This isn't a place you move into and figure it out as you go. It's a project, and a real one.

What someone already did do is put in a new four-bedroom septic system. That's a big item to have behind you. Septic work on a rural property this age can be expensive and complicated, and it's done. The system is rated for four bedrooms, so there's room to grow into whatever the house might become after the work.

The lot is 1.8 acres with wildlife on it, which in rural Virginia usually means deer, maybe turkey, the general sense that you're not surrounded by other houses. The listing specifically says no drive-bys, which tells you the property sits in a place where a stranger pulling up would be noticed, or at least where the owner cares enough about that to say so. Rural and genuinely private.

There's almost nothing in the agent description beyond the basics, so the specifics of the interior condition, any outbuildings, the roof, the mechanicals, all of that would need to come from a walkthrough. With a house this old and this much deferred work acknowledged upfront, you'd want a thorough inspection and probably a contractor with you.

What you have is a Civil War-era farmhouse on nearly two acres in rural Virginia, priced accordingly, with the septic already handled. The rest is on you.