1960 Hawthorne Ranch, Fruit Orchard, Full Renovation, 8x24 Outbuilding — $149,900

The yard is the first thing worth your attention here. On a .21-acre lot in Hawthorne, someone put in five varieties of fruit trees, peach, cherry, apple, and crabapple among them, plus a vegetable garden that's already producing watermelon, cantaloupe, and zucchini. There's drip irrigation running to all of it. New fencing and gates around the perimeter. An 8x24 outbuilding at the back that could run as a workshop, studio, or straight storage. For a lot this size in a small Nevada town, that's a lot going on outside.

The house is 952 square feet, built in 1960, and somebody went through it properly. New plumbing including the main sewer line. Upgraded 125-amp electrical service. New windows and insulation. On-demand hot water heater with a water filtration system. New doors, flooring, paint, cabinetry, countertops, and lighting. A mini-split heat pump handles the climate, and there's a wood-burning stove as well. Kitchen appliances are included. The Blink camera security system stays too.

The front room works as the third bedroom or an office depending on what you need from it. The floor plan is straightforward. At under a thousand square feet with one bath, this is a small house, and the renovation brings it up to current mechanical standards without changing that math. Two clear bedrooms plus the front room.

What someone spent time and money on here is the land and the systems. The mechanical upgrades are the kind you do when you're planning to stay or when you want the next buyer to have nothing to fix. Plumbing, electrical, sewer line, windows, insulation, these are the unsexy items that matter. The orchard and garden are the opposite, visible and producing now, which tells you something about how this place was treated.

Hawthorne is a small town in Mineral County, about 140 miles southeast of Reno. At $149,900 for a fully redone house with a working orchard and a large outbuilding, the price reflects where it is. If that location works for you, the property itself is solid.