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Dale Hollow Lake Property

Looking for lake property in Tennessee? Did you know that lake FRONT doesn't necessarily mean lake ACCESS in Tennessee? The thick perimeter of land surrounding every major waterway in this state is technically owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or the Tennessee Valley Authority. As a result, they dictate what you can and cannot do on that piece of property between your house and the lake.

Here's a photo collage of a day spent at our property -- at Swan Ridge Lake Resort on Dale Hollow Lake. It was our dog Tenor's first time visiting the property. Also his first time off-leash to roam free. He did great!

We're down but not out! After a year spent securing the land, finding a log home builder, designing the blueprints, and saving money to build the log home of our dreams, we had a minor setback when we learned that we couldn't build our log home for under $160/SF. Now we're gearing up for Round Two in the log home building process. See what we're planning now...

This article is one of the few in which we have actually vented our yearlong frustrations in dealing with finding a general contractor to build our home, topped off with some of the runaround we've received from the banks who seem unwilling to finance log homes in this area.

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.

Word of mouth. That's how we found this beautiful property on Dale Hollow Lake. Here's how we discovered Swan Ridge Lake Resort near Cookeville, Tennessee.

We plan to build our log home on 1.62 acres at a new lakefront development in Northern/Middle Tennessee. It's called, and we'll be one of the first to build there. Here's more...

We've decided to open up our search to include West Tennessee and East Tennessee -- in addition to right here in Middle Tennessee. Actually, we're looking wherever the biggest, nicest lakes are. Here are all the lakes in Tennessee that we are exploring...