Interestingly, the inquiries about our lake property that's for sale have started to pick up recently.

So, in case you're wondering... yes, the property is still for sale.

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...

In our neverending search for a place to call home, Jim and I drove out to our property on Dale Hollow Lake this weekend to reflect on our year-long journey toward building our dream home... a log home.

We took our dog, Tenor. And we just sat there for a few hours on our land, weighing all of our options (again) as far as the lake property goes, and wondering about our likelihood of finding someone (a general contractor) to build our log home for us.

After coming to grips with the fact that we can't build this log home for $150 or even $155 a square foot at Swan Ridge Lake Resort (Dale Hollow Lake in the Celina/Cookeville, TN area) at this time, Jim and I have decided that we're not giving up.

We are simply considering this Round One.

Jim and I have come to the conclusion that we were completely disillusioned about the cost to build a log home... at least here in Middle Tennessee anyway!

So far, we've spoken to 6 general contractors now (4 of whom have many many years of experience building log homes). Each of them told us that we could build a log home for somewhere between $125 - $150 per square foot.

Baloney.

When we bought our property on Dale Hollow Lake, we wondered just how much snow would fall in that area during the winter months.

Dale Hollow Lake is a couple hours north of Nashville, and a tad east (it's fairly close to "the plateau").

So yesterday morning, we hopped in the car to check out the freshly fallen snow on our property.

Many people have asked us how we ever found the Swan Ridge Lake Resort development, and what took us to Dale Hollow Lake in the first place.

Wondering why we chose this as the location to build our new log home?

Here's how it happened...

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...