[RosieCotton]

A quick glance shows that most of the ones under $150k or so need work or are on a rented lot. :-\ But I’ll need to save up closing costs and all that anyway, won’t I? So it’ll likely still be a long way off. No telling what the housing market will do in that time.

Just kind of depressing, ‘cause my little house in Vermont - very small two bedroom with no land, but still! - only cost $40k. And sold for 50k. Not that there are tons of houses in that range back home, but there are certainly some very nice ones with even a yard and all for 80k or so.

[TalonDJ]

Closing I think for me was 1.5kb or so. I forget. And sometimes you can get the seller to pick up some or all of that.
Some work is do-able. You know how to do ‘some work’ and can learn anything. For my house I was specifically looking for one that needed things I could do but not too much and had a basement that was finish-able. So targeting specific stuff I knew how to do. Like reroofing it. Never hurts to look around and see what there is.