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.
When we began exploring lake real estate in Tennessee, we started with Dover, TN. Here's why we ultimately decided NOT to build on Lake Barkley or Kentucky Lake. While definitely beautiful lakes -- and a great place to visit -- we just couldn't see ourselves living there. Here's why...
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 learned quickly that getting a loan for a log home is quite different than getting a loan for a traditional 'stick-built' home. Odds are, even if you qualify for a traditional home mortgage, you might not qualify right away for a loan to build a log home. When we were trying to obtain a loan to build our log home, these are the banks and mortgage lenders that we personally approached for a construction loan, and highlights from our experiences with each of them.
We still have so many questions about living in the Dover area. The prices for the land seems quite reasonable -- for waterfront no less! But the only 'odd' thing is that waterfront doesn't necessarily mean water access.
We had so much fun just riding around Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. While Dover is a really small town (it's also the county seat), it's fairly quaint and clean and quiet. At least that's how it seemed to us -- our first impression.
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.
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...
Here's a list of the biggest reasons to live in Tennessee, and therefore the reasons we want to look for a place to build in either East Tennessee, West Tennessee, or right here in Middle Tennessee.
