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MUST KNOW RULES FOR RENTALS!

Please email us for our free "Rules for Successful Overnight Rentals". This document will give you the most important factors to consider when purchasing a Gatlinburg or Pigeon Forge area vacation home that will be used as an overnight rental. To learn more about our Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge area overnight rental industry, click below. What is an Overnight Rental?

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COMMUNITY VIRTUAL TOUR!

Looking for information about our area? If so, please checkout our new virtual tour of the Sevier County area (filmed by our daughter Brittany Schoenfield) featuring information about Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and Sevierville by clicking here.

INVEST IRA FUNDS IN REAL ESTATE!

Did you know that you can purchase a Gatlinburg vacation rental property with the funds in your IRA account without a tax penalty? For more information, please contact us by clicking here.

In addition to the other benefits of living in Sevier County (great scenery, low taxes, mild climate, low crime, etc.), we also have great schools. In fact, Gatlinburg-Pittman High School was recently voted the number one High School in America by none other than the Wall Street Journal, reprinted below!

Not bad for a Senior Class whose TOTAL membership
was less than 150 students!!

This wasn't a single year fluke either. 2003's graduating class of about 120 children was awarded over $3,500,000 in scholarships, but we've been too busy to get a new picture of the marquee! In fact, the University of Tennessee says that of all of the schools that send ACT scores to UT, Gatlinburg - Pittman every year has the highest average ACT score!

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, SOUTHEAST JOURNAL WED., MAY 13, 1998 SCHOOL EXPENSES BY TAMAR HAUSMAN

Economics 101

Where can your high-school bound kids get the best education for the least money?

SchoolMatch, a Westerville Ohio, company that helps parents select the right schools for their children, recently completed a study of the nation’s 13,927 public school districts to answer that question. To quantify a school’s value, the company created for each school a percentile for pupil performance and another for per-student expenses. Therefore, if a school fell in the 100th percentile on performance and the first percentile on cost, it would have the highest value, and vice versa.

When calculating per-pupil expenses, SchoolMatch took into account home property values in the community, teacher salaries, school-resourse expenditures and the district tax base. For pupil performance, the firm looked at class size, students’ performance on standardized tests and other measures.

In the Southeast, according to the study, Gatlinburg Pittman High in Gatlinburg, Tenn., has the biggest bang for its buck, and Columbia High in Columbia, N.C. has the lowest value. Gatlinburg Pittman High falls in the 98th percentile in the country on performance and in the 10th on expenses. Columbia High falls in the fourth percentile on performance and in the 56th on expenses. Overall, North Carolina is the clear loser in the study.

Nearly as good as Gatlinburg Pittman are Auburn High in Auburn, Ala., and Vestavia Hills High in Vestavia Hills, Ala. (both of which have percentiles of 99 and 15). Three of the top 10 schools in the region, in fact, are in Alabama.

It doesn’t hurt that the Southeast’s school systems have some of the lowest expenses in the country. The region’s top 10 schools for value rank among the country’s top ones as well.

Of the bottom 10, two are in Atlanta-Fulton High and Douglass High-and two are in Winston-Salem, N.C. The others are in North Carolina: Mount Pleasant High, Gates County Senior High (Gatesville), Mattamuskeet High (Swan Quarter) and Ocracoke High. And there’s one in Tennessee: Whites Creek Comp High, near Nashville.

Heads of Class

High Performance, Low Cost

School	Location	Performance	Cost
Gatlinburg Pittman High	Gatlinburg, Tenn.	98	10
Auburn High	Auburn, Ala.	99	15
Vestavia Hills High	Vestavia Hills, Ala.	99	15
Lexington High	Lexington, S.C.	95	15
Brentwood High	Brentwood, Tenn.	95	16
Eastside High	Taylor, S.C.	94	16
Litchfield High	Gadsden, Ala.	91	15
Lakeside High	Evans, Ga.	91	16
Salisbury High	Salisbury, N.C.	89	19
Davidson Magnet School	Augusta, Ga.	85	10

Low Performance, High Cost

School	Location	Performance	Cost
Columbia High	Columbia, N.C.	4	56
Mallamuskeet High	Swan Quarter, N.C.	5	58
Ocracoke High	Ocracoke, N.C.	11	58
Gales County Senior High	Gatesville, N.C.	17	64
Fullan High	Atlanta	20	67
Whites Creek Comp High	Whites Creek, Tenn	20	57
Independence High	Winston-Salem, N.C.	28	55
Mount Pleasant High	Mount Pleasant, N.C.	37	51
Douglas High	Atlanta	39	67
Carver High	Winston-Salem, N.C.	42	55

Source: SchoolMatch

Super Lease/Option to Buy!
If you've been looking for a home in the country with room to spread out we have it! Available May 1st, we are offering for lease WITH an option to BUY this 4 bedroom, 2 bath home on 4.6 acres AND a mini-barn. Bring your horse and relax and enjoy the peaceful Sevier County countryside. Totally remodeled in 2007, this property is new from top to bottom and is affordable too. With a 12 month lease the rent for this home is only $1,000 per month and you may be able to purchase the house a year from now! We are the owner and agent for this property. Sorry, you won't find this great home in the MLS and no commission is being offered to cooperating agents. To view a flyer regarding this great Sevier County property, please click here! or call Jeff today at 865-436-0444!

Gatlinburg Real Estate Blog!

To keep ahead of what is happening with Gatlinburg real estate and the Great Smoky Mountains including Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Kodak, and all of Sevier County, check out our Gatlinburg Real Estate blog!

Articles regarding recent development decisions, sales statistics, and other features are already a part of this effort and we will be glad to post your comments to articles contained on our Gatlinburg real estate blog site.