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I'm in rural TN; not that different a place at all. I'm not speaking of family owned homes tho. I'm talking about the Abandoned, uninhabited homes that are now owned by some out of state thing per county records... which is a lot of them. LLC's and INCs whom I believe have the properties valued highly on some book somewhere and haven't done anything to maintain them.

Our local Craigslists always have "Property inspector" jobs listed. You go take some cell phone shots of buildings to prove they exist. The people I have spoken to who have done those say they didn't bother going to the places as often as not and took pics of some neighbors house. Even when people actually do that job and document the true state of these properties I can't help but suspect the information is buried or lost because thats not the narrative management would want.

The actual family owned housing stock got better the last two years, our population doubled for the last 3/4ths of 2020, and all those relatives did a lot of renovation and rebuilding.

I actually used to work with people from East Tennessee for the past 2.5 years. They described how the Knoxville area was growing like crazy with folks from the coastal states moving there.

I understand what you're saying. The ripple effect created by that dynamic would unjustifiably inflate local property values, reducing affordability for locals, creating synthetic demand by reducing supply as the land could otherwise be auctioned.

West TN; we've got that happening too. The neighbor's $750k McMansion has ludicrous "market value" implications for the hunting camp trailers beside it and the doublewide up the road.

and (ahem) East TN is more "western Arlington VA" IMO. I said rural. I'd have to walk a half mile to get a decent rifle shot at a neighbor. It's getting too crowded here.

You just described my road here in Henderson County,TN. We bought 100 acres and built a dream home. In the last years (ish) 4 new single wides went in and a couple of new smaller homes. We were told during the entire build that we will never get out of it what we are putting into it and we don't care. We aren't building for resale, selling it is our kid's problem.

But there are so many abandoned places out here. People have just walked away and never looked back. We had one across the road that over the last 10 years the woods has reclaimed and unless you knew that it was there, you would drive right past it.

Could you use it for hiking, hunting or woods?

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