I think many buyers will not want the extra traffic and noise they feel comes with an apartment and that will likely affect marketability.

It's a European company coming to the US market.

Norris Lake is proving to be a great market.

Atlanta is becoming an expensive market, and I don't see that slowing down or reversing soon.

If just starting out maybe do a small flip with a good mentor in your local market or buy your first rental to learn the game and start building that wealth.

I'd love to try this tool, we analyze every lot in our market under 25k in Columbus Ohio and this would be very useful. we need frontage, depth, acreage, price per acre, I can send you my current template and maybe you could modify it what do you think? 

A neighboring property, similar to my current rental property, is now on the market at the same price I paid two years ago, with comparable rent.

I'd start with local banks/CU's that are close to the property you're looking at especially if you're local to the market also. 

It puts this property considerably above the top of the market, would that really make sense for a rental property? 

You would buy there to live or if you just want to own property in the best location possible....Overall, the long term rental game is rather difficult in the middle TN market right now, especially in the Nashville area.