Gatlinburg Real Estate Blog

I regularly post about all of the wonderful assets of our Smoky Mountain area and how our beautiful scenery, mild weather, and the area's economic opportunity are some of the reasons why people continue to move to the Gatlinburg/Sevierville/Pigeon Forge area. Sevier County does in fact have all of the above but people also choose to live here because of what we DON'T have: No state income taxes! No excessive property taxes (some of the lowest in the nation actually) Almost no severe weather (never had a hurricane, only a very small number of tornadoes, and no serious earthquakes - I've never even felt a tremor in East Tennessee and I have lived here over 50 years) Very little serious crime That last bullet point is the one that I would like to focus on in this post. When I moved here from Knoxville almost 20 years ago, the newspaper printed every week the entire crime blotter. It looked like something from the old Andy Griffith show. Someone like Otis had been arrested for ...

I regularly post about all of the wonderful assets of our Smoky Mountain area and how our beautiful scenery, mild weather, and the area's economic opportunity are some of the reasons why people continue to move to the Gatlinburg/Sevierville/Pigeon Forge area. Sevier County does in fact have all of the above but people also choose to live here because of what we DON'T have: No state income taxes! No excessive property taxes (some of the lowest in the nation actually) Almost no severe weather (never had a hurricane, only a very small number of tornadoes, and no serious earthquakes - I've never even felt a tremor in East Tennessee and I have lived here over 50 years) Very little serious crime That last bullet point is the one that I would like to focus on in this post. When I moved here from Knoxville almost 20 years ago, the newspaper printed every week the entire crime blotter. It looked like something from the old Andy Griffith show. Someone like Otis had been arre...