About Fentress County, TN

3 BR, 2BTH 2010 home on 7.62 acres! Home features 1250 sq ft. home with a Master bedroom is 15x15 with a private bathroom and walk in closet. Other highlights include cathedral ceiling in living room, recessed lighting throughout house, anderson windows, amana heating and cooling, custom oak cabinets, new whirpool appliances, tile in bathrooms and floating floors. Outside highlights include low maintenance dutch lap siding, dimensional shingle roof, fully covered 8x48 front and back porches with recessed lighting and nice circle drive. All this located in the Big South Fork National Park area.

Property foreclosures are on the rise across the nation, presenting financial opportunities for real estate investors, first time home buyers, and those looking to move up within the real estate market.

So, how can you benefit from the current foreclosure market?

Foreclosed properties are often offered at prices significantly lower than fair market value, offering strong financial opportunities to individuals and investors.

Investors can purchase foreclosed properties to resell or rent for an immediate income. First time home buyers can often purchase a larger or nicer property. And individuals who are looking to move up within the real estate market can often find a larger property at competitive prices, allowing them to purchase a larger property than they originally anticipated or to buy their dream property at a reduced price.

Whether you are a real estate investor looking to flip properties for a profit, or an individual searching for their first piece of real estate, or looking to move up in the real estate market, foreclosed properties present an ideal buying situation.

When I look back at some of our photos, I wonder what is that??? I have on a pack which says I could be hiking, tights that say I could be mountain biking, and a helmet which says I might be riding my horse.

You decide! I am four words short of 50 so this will fix that, hopefully.

Well it's been a long hard slog with this horse. Now, almost 5 months later (See Blogs on same subject, Parts 1 & 2) his surgery wound has healed up until it's almost gone. The vet is pleased with the way it looks.

With his lump gone and months of recovery, you would think that's the end of it - but NO, we've been through an abscess in his surgery side hoof that erupted in his heel, an infection with a temp of 104.6, blood tests to check organ function, and for Lyme's disease and then three-legged lameness in his other leg that was diagnosed as an abscess, navicular syndrome and finally an injury to his flexor tendon. All that entailed 2 visits with our farrier, 2 nerve blocks, one to diagnose the navicular (which is wasn't) and one to x-ray for fractures and then a trip to an out-of-town vet where he was nerve blocked for an ultrasound. The ultrasound showed a slight inflammation and possible tear in his flexor tendon.

He stayed there a week and came home to stall rest which he did NOT tolerate very well, then out with a buddy in a dry lot and finally out with his buddy in a separate pasture. His feeding is done on a mounting block with his bucket shock-corded to one of the steps to elevate it. He had trouble dropping his head low enough to eat his grain and to graze. Finally he is eating on the ground and grazing with only 2 more pain pills to go.

It will be a few more months before he is turned out with all the horses. He will have to show us he can trot and canter without pain before that happens. Tendons take about 6 months to heal.

One funny thing did happen though...I was reading over one of the vet bills and noticed his name at the top. His registered quarter horse name is Rb's Secos Music. And so we call him RB. That was the name I gave the check-in lady at the vet's office. But when I read the bill later his name had been entered as ARBY. So now we call him Roast Beef !

We love him lots and you have to when they require so much time and effort, let alone bucks. He's now worth double what we paid for him...or more, but that's OK!

Here's a series of photos before, with stitches, and now. Amazing what the body can do to heal!

I have two cabins listed, right across the street from each other, at 224 Indian Rock Trail and 225 Indian Rock Trail. What are the chances that BOTH would be under contract in this sorry market, and due to close within the next two weeks??!!

It sure feels good for me to see those "Pending" signs and it has been a real positive for visitors to the Big South Fork who came here for the fabulous trail riding during October, our best fall month, because Indian Rock Trail is directly across from True West, one of the area's best-known horse campgrounds.

For information about Big South Fork real estate or horse properties in Jamestown, Tennessee, go to http:www.trailridersrealestate.com

There's also a lot of information about the area at Tennessee Recreational Properties' website.