looking for a non-vacation home to rent (Nashville, Madison: for sale, real estate)

[Hillbilly13]

My Wife and I are planning to relocate to the Swain County area of NC very soon. We're currently in Nashville, TN. I can't find anything except expensive cabins for vacations. It would help us very much if anyone knew of a realtor or anything like that. It's very hard to find normal (non tourist) information about that area. Thank you.

[motordavid]

Did you search 'Swain County' at all?
Several links of info, including a City Data link:
http://www.city-data.com/county/Swain_County-NC.html

I glanced at the RE sites, but didn't see much in terms of non-'vacay' style rentals, but I would think there are some...
Lightly populated, but large geography, as in ~13,000 legal residents, plus part time non rez.

If you and your wife are "planning to relocate" there, I would hope you have more info on the area than you seem to have.

A search page full of other info links:
swain county nc - Yahoo! Search Results

GL, mD

[tarheel_state]

Swain County's newspaper The Smoky Mountain Times has weekly ads of places for rent.

Smoky Mountain Times

[dhanu86]

I think the swain market is mostly cabins aka wooden mcmansions or golden birdhouse. I found reasonable prices are in virginia or closer to ga, maybe next year when the economy crashes good deals will pop up.

[Loves mountains]

We found a rental house in Madison County by searching all of the real estate that is FOR SALE and then finding someone who has had their home on the market for a while and is interested in renting - lots of people never considered it - but we found someone who WAS! Perhaps you can do the same in Swain County?