220 Milton RoadRochester, NH 03868Price: $365,000

You've been scrolling the under $400k listings in Rochester, so you already know what's out there. Mobile homes. Condos. Little / Old houses with the neighbors close enough to borrow sugar through the window. 220 Milton Road isn't any of those. It's a real house on a real yard, with a stream running right through the backyard. 220 Milton Road is a clean, simple 1960 ranch. Three bedrooms and a bath, all on one floor, and no, it isn't big. But the stuff that would wreck your budget is already done. Brand new drilled well. High-efficiency propane heat, barely four years old. That dead-well, dying-furnace nightmare you've been bracing for at this price? Not yours to worry about. Out back is the part you can't fake. Almost an acre, with the yard cleared and opened right up and that stream running the width of it. You don't see that kind of elbow room this close to town for anywhere near this price. Inside is exactly what it looks like, a tidy one-level ranch that's move in ready and sitting empty, so you can paint it, fill it, and be in by the weekend. Full basement underneath for everything you'd rather not look at. You're on Route 125 toward the north end of Rochester, New Hampshire, with easy access to Route 16 and Route 11. Downtown is minutes south, and Dover and the Seacoast are an easy drive past that. Propane hot water heat, a brand new drilled well, private septic, and a gravel driveway with plenty of room to park, all on nearly an acre. For under four hundred thousand in this town, this is about as much honest house, land, and done-for-you mechanicals as you'll find in one place. Public open houses this coming Friday, Saturday, Sunday (June 12,13,14)