
Character Home, Historic
Five bedrooms for under $135,000 is the number that stops you. That is not a typo and it is not a gut-renovation situation. The house has been updated and the appliances stay, including the washer and dryer. You can move in without a to-do list waiting on day one.
The house was built in 1925 and runs 1,897 square feet across those five rooms. That is a tight average per room, so you are not looking at sprawling spaces, but five is five. If you need the count more than the square footage, this delivers.
The primary bedroom has a 9 by 12 walk-in closet. For a house this age, that is a meaningful amount of storage built into a single room. Older homes from this era tend to have closets the size of a phone booth, so whoever updated this one thought ahead.
Mechanically, the house has two furnaces and two A/C units. One furnace is new. The dual setup suggests the house is zoned or was adapted over time, which is worth asking about, but two systems means you have redundancy and you are not heating or cooling the whole house from a single aging unit. For a hundred-year-old house, that is a solid position to be in.
Outside there is a fenced yard and a 10 by 12 utility shed. The shed is useful without being remarkable. The fence means the yard has a boundary, which matters if you have kids or a dog.
The kitchen is fully applianced and the laundry room is large enough that the agent called it out by name, which usually means it earned it. Beyond that the listing description is thin on interior detail, so specific finishes and room layout are things you would want to see in person.
At this price, in a 1925 house with five bedrooms and updated mechanicals, you are getting a lot of house for the money. Peru is a small city in north-central Indiana and $134,900 reflects that market, not a discount on something broken.


