Rarity Mountain sees prices drop

When David and Sharon Gordon bought a lot in the Rarity Mountain residential community in 2006, they paid $445,000 for the Jellico, Tenn., property.

[lady]

lol

[citizen]

Just because you can get your hands on a lot of money doesn't mean you're smart!

[wash out]

rarity mountain was a big dream
wonder if it ever come true

[Love it]

Only a fool would build a house up on that mountain. The golf course has already slid off the mountain and the houses are likely to do the same. I can't believe anyone would be stupid enough to pay the prices that have been reported in the paper for lots in such an unstable area. Used to be the crooks sold swamp land lots in Fla. Now they are selling them in the strip mine capital of the world. Since Mike Ross' financial troubles have come to light, it makes one wonder if he really forked over all those millions to build that interchange off I-75, as has been reported, so the suckers would have access to his new empire. Oh well, A fool and his money. But it makes one wonder if all those unionized Yankee workers who have the money to buy into these con job developments were really worth the big bucks they earned over the years. .

[Goody]

I hear Ross's golf course slid off that mountain. Any reports of houses doing the same?How come we haven'T heard anything in the news about this? Doesn't the media owe it to the public to warn them that this mountain is not a proper place to locate a housing development? Just how many more construction projects will have to slide off that mountain before someone alerts the public?

[passing through]

$445,000 for a lot in Jellico and they didn't even get a double-wide. What idiots

[mcss]

The Yankees aren't the only folks who bought into the Rarity fantasy. I know that alot of Tennessee people did as well. Especially the so called educated Oak Ridge workers. Are they unionized? Worth the "big bucks"?

[Granmaofsix]

There are no houses built yet, so no one has a house slided off the mountain. It is hard for a mountain of rock to slide so get the facts straight first before commenting

[butereye]

Granmaofsix wrote:

There are no houses built yet, so no one has a house slided off the mountain. It is hard for a mountain of rock to slide so get the facts straight first before commenting

i can't believe you would say a mountain of rock wouldent slide...are you on mikes dope..........

[oh well]

Well when your looking off the mountain down into Newcomb and toward Jellico I think it's very pretty.
I wouldn't care to live up there. But I do believe that the mountain slides because my Grandpa said when they were building the interstate that it slid off several times. That sure has been alot of wasted money though.

[Willie]

Everytime my wife and I drive by Rarity Mountain I get a knot in my gut when I think of the amount of money paid for the I-75 interchange. H'mm I think my tax $ may be less because of it. How much political assistance did the developer have anyway? I think the people of TN and others who support the highways are owned an explaination for the $ of tax payer money that may have been spent there.

[Curious]

Is Sarah Palin our governor and I just never knew?

[lmao]

Sarah Palin wouldnt have been dumb enough to spend 20 million dollars on an off ramp to no where

[Curious]

She's only dumb enough to spend 25 million on a road to nowhere!!!

[union worker]

if you know anything about the union at all ,most all the members are southern,,,you Idiot!!!

[sad]

that so called rarity mountain is just one big dream like everything else
i think they are moveing that trailor out at the botton well it look like they are anyway '
it would been nice to see pine mountain paved all of the way but this is one big dream
that is a spot now for teenagers to go;;lol

[Ohio]

Pine Mountain is paved. A new paved road runs through the would be development for miles to where it joins the Stinking Creek road. I recently visited the proposed Rarity Mountain development site. There is no activity that I could see. Even the sales building no longer exists. Now it is obvious that it was a pipe dream and also that much much money from some source has been poured into it. However, there are some incorrect statements made in earlier posts stating that houses would slide off the mountain. This is simply not true. Much of the topography at that elevation is not that steep. There are communities in the same area that have supported homesites for centuries. It was not the topography that killed Rarity Mountain.

[cant help them]

Ohio you cant help these Hillbilly's so don't even waste your time trying.

[rarity]

the project stopped because of bankruptcy!and as far as the off ramp,the only goverment assistance was a tax free build!and all permits were free also,in other words..we went to the state and county and the fee`s were waived on all permits and taxes!only because the project would have brought several jobs to this area,which so desperatley are needed!but the economy fell through and scratched our project!so the great tax payers of tennessee paid nothing for our project!

[Flanders]

Who did not see this coming? Avalon will filter in also.