64 Pond St.
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In 1988, when I moved to the Boston area, I bought the second least expensive house listed in Natick, MA, an 1870 Victorian Gothic "worker's cottage" at 64 Pond Street for $154,000.
It had lime green asbestos shingle siding, an almost completely-paved asphalt lawn, and was surrounded by a chain link fence. Inside, there were dropped ceilings in every room, along with a plastic curtain doors in place of the original 4-panel doors that were found in the basement. Eventually, every problem was solved and the home brought back such that it was the talk of the neighborhood! We re-built the house with the help of a carpenter friend, Ray Stackpole, from top to bottom.