Joe is our "roving reporter" for the day. He's a longtime visitor to this site and you will find his comments at the end of many of the articles found here.

He has certainly done a lot of research on lake living (in Tennessee) and log home building, in general.

Joe and his wife recently spent some time in East Tennessee visiting potential homesites for their future log home. We are most grateful that Joe has taken the time to compile a summary of his findings.

If you are interested in buying lake property in Tennessee (or, you're simply exploring the option of buying or building a log home near a lake), then I'm sure you will find some valuable information here.

Lakefront (or waterfront) property in Tennessee is very hard to come by these days... I don't care who you are!

Why?

We've decided to put our property on Dale Hollow Lake up for sale.

Why? Because we'd like to buy an RV.

And since things are moving along so nicely toward building our log home here in Williamson County Tennessee, holding onto the Dale Hollow Lake property would purely be a luxury at this point.

We view this lake property as a place that we would eventually (a long time from now) like to build a "vacation home" -- our log cabin on the lake -- but we'd rather do some serious RVing before then. So it seems most practical to sell the lake property and just go from there.

So, if you're looking for land in Tennessee -- particularly a lake lot -- it doesn't get much better than Dale Hollow Lake.

Here are the details...

I'm about to list the Top 5 places to build a log home, according to the editors of Log Home Living Magazine (August 2007).

But before we go there, I think we all would agree that there are plenty of other locations that should've made the list... but didn't.

I hope that others who read this will take a second to share their favorite place to build a log home or log cabin in the Comments below.

Now, onto the Top 5...

The Log & Timber Homes Network has compiled a list of the most ideal areas across the country in which to build a vacation log home.

View the top log home vacation hot spots for 2007, compared to 2006...

We are going to start our search for lake property at Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley -- the northern part of Middle Tennessee, near the Kentucky/Tennessee border.

After talking to Bruce & Beth, we are now extremely excited by all the new possibilities available to us.

We had never even thought of living on a lake before!

Here are some of the lakes around here that we feel are worth exploring...

So now, we are entering what I'm calling Phase 2 of our search for a place to build our dream home.

We've pretty much exhausted all the possibilities as far as land for sale around Williamson County goes.

Now we're branching out into all new territory -- any lake in Tennessee.

The one and only thing we know for sure at this point:

We want to stay in Tennessee!