They will bend over backwards and in some cases loan outside of normal parameters to keep the business such as move to 25 year amort. and 7 to 10 year fixed.The longer the term fixed in years the fixed interest rate starts rising.

Shobha, I would look around South Shore/Big Bend area you can find some decent homes 3/2-4/2 from $225K-$350K. 

It seems that they are pretty similar in price and revenue, but the biggest difference I see is a 1 million visitor/year for BB/Beavers Bend market vs a 12-15 million visitor/yr for the Smoky Mountains. 

Then come back and bend to $280K or $285K.

If I was on the retail side I see where the benefit would be but with investors you can't bend the numbers. 

I live in the Fort Bend area, currently. 

I am having a very difficult time finding an investor friendly real estate agent in South Bend Indiana.  

It has been working for us.We were close to buying in the Bend area for our place as we love going there.

That is the question that confronted Gaku and Yukiko Tomii, two 30-something dentists, who wanted to build a fun, unusual living space atop a hill minutes away from some of the most storied temples in the country.Their answer: T-House, a 2,152-square-foot, $669,000 modernist cube of a dwelling, which meets Kyoto's strict design regulations on the outside but bends all the rules on the inside.From the street, the simple lines and traditional white and dark-brown coloring of T-House help it blend with the traditional Japanese-style homes in the woody, suburban neighborhood of northwestern Kyoto where it is located.

For buy and hold, my area (Bend, Oregon)is good: endless sunshine, ski mountain, 30 golf courses, excellent infrastructure, and all the baby boomers still have to retire sometime.This area has a history of roller coaster real estate prices: high highs and really low lows.