Concerns with crime reports Donelson/Hermitage area (Jackson, Hendersonville: middle-class, apartments)

[maverick92170]

Checking out some rental places between $900-1000...found a great-looking little condo on Percy Priest in the Lincoya Bay area...you'd think, sweet-right on the lake, etc...(Williams Bend Townhomes)...

Well, the reviews of the nearby Lincoya Bay area apartments are BAD...going back several years...

Why is this area questionable being on the lake?

Also, several other townhomes/apts. in the Donelson/Hermitage area all seem to have the same troubling crime reports...

Am I not reading these CRIME reports correctly? What is the easiest way to determine a safe area (raw numbers, maybe not these maps with icons)?

Thanks!

[maverick92170]

Plus, most have spoken glowingly about Donelson/Hermitage generally...

I take it must be better to be in a decent neighborhood renting? And/or maybe it's like East Nashville where there are great streets/blocks maybe w/pockets of crime on the main thoroughfares...

Plus, it's hard to find decent apartments that are safer for a good deal...that's even the case here in the Perimeter area of Atlanta, a pretty upscale area...

Just was confused...Percy Priest (that side or part at least) must not have been developed as high-end?

Guess that's why the rent seems maybe too good to be true?

[BirdieBelle]

Percy Priest Lake is not a typical lake area like you are thinking of. It is owned by the Army Corps of Engineers, so there aren't privately owned, expensive lake homes there to raise the property values.

[ExIslander]

^ Correct. Being near the lake does not automatically equate to upscale, especially when there's so much of it. Remember that Percy Priest is a man-made lake and most of the surrounding areas were not affluent to begin with.

As for the complex itself, Lincoya Bay is an old complex and the rent is relatively cheap, so I wouldn't be surprised if they had some problems, particularly if management is bad. Overall, there are a lot of nice rental areas around the lake, but not all of it is nice.

[maverick92170]

Down here in AL/GA, it's the Southern Company, with AL/GA/Gulf Power... many of the lakes in both states (some more than others) have a LOT of nice homes on them, with privately-owned land and/or land sold from the SoCo to do so...

Is Old Hickory up at Hendersonville different?

You'd think, especially with all the wealth in Nashville, that this would've been a prime spot for upscale lake living/vacation homes (did just see Alan Jackson's crib an hour east of town)...then again, up here in Atlanta, I don't hear a million folks talking about having places on Lake Lanier either...they go further north to Lake Burton in N Ga or W to Martin in AL or E to Hartwell on the SC border...

The rental I was curious about-these particular units are townhomes built in 2005, so it sounds like they are in the wrong place wrong time...too bad...then again, the rent would prob be a lot higher if things were different...

Do you guys know of particular complexes/properties that are better on Percy Priest?

Thanks as always...

[BirdieBelle]

Yes, Old Hickory and Center Hill are where you find "that kind" of lake living. Tim's Ford Lake down south also has lake homes, most more moderately priced.

Sorry I can't help with rental advice, though.

[ExIslander]

Originally Posted by maverick92170

You'd think, especially with all the wealth in Nashville, that this would've been a prime spot for upscale lake living/vacation homes (did just see Alan Jackson's crib an hour east of town)

To concur with what Wmsn4Life said, Old Hickory Lake gets most of the upscale-lake living around here. Percy Priest, being created in more of a middle-class area to begin with and having much of the immediate lakefront controlled by the Corps of Engineers, never really took off in that sense. It's not exactly out in the boonies anyway; the airport is right down the street and the complex you're looking at is, as the crow flies, barely ten miles from the center of downtown Nashville. There's nothing wrong with it at all, you just have to think in terms of "place that happens to have a lake" instead of "lake place."