1919 Riverton Cottage with Big Ceilings, Screened Porch, and a Full Basement — $130,000

The ceilings are the first thing. For a house built in 1919, they read tall, and combined with large windows on a corner lot, the rooms get real light. That combination in a 1,310 square foot cottage is not something you take for granted.

The layout upstairs is straightforward: one bedroom, one bathroom, a living room, a formal dining area, and a kitchen that has been updated. One bedroom is what it is. If that works for you, the rest of the house supports it well. The spaces have some size to them without feeling spread out, and the light keeps things from feeling closed in.

The screened-in front porch faces a landscaped corner lot with mature perennial plantings. It is the kind of porch you use. Morning coffee, summer evenings, whatever you need it for. The corner position gives you more yard than a standard lot and keeps traffic off one side.

Underneath all of it is a full unfinished basement. Same footprint as the main floor, so roughly 1,310 square feet of raw space. Finishing it would take work and money, but the square footage is real and the potential to nearly double the livable space is legitimate. Right now it is storage and utility, but it is a big number sitting there if you want to do something with it.

The mechanical updates matter here. Newer roof, newer furnace, added attic insulation, and electrical improvements already done. On a 100-plus year old house, those are the items that can catch you if they have been neglected. Someone did the work.

Behind the house there is additional space with room to build a garage or expand the footprint. There is no garage currently.

For $130,000 in Riverton, you are getting a solid, old house with good light, a porch worth having, a full basement, and the hard maintenance updates behind you. The one bedroom limits the pool of buyers, which probably explains the price. For the right person it is a reasonable deal.