NASHVILLE — In a three-bedroom ranch off Nolensville Pike, two of the bedrooms have been closed for years — a study no one studies in, a guest room that rarely sees guests. The owners are in their seventies. Down the road, a young family rents a two-...
NASHVILLE — On a Sunday afternoon in East Nashville, a couple in their seventies waters the tomatoes behind a four-bedroom bungalow they have owned since the Clinton administration. Two of the bedrooms have been empty for a decade. Down the block, a ...
NASHVILLE — At a mortgage desk in Davidson County this summer, the loan applications that stall most often are not the jumbo files or the fixer-upper deals. They are the small ones: the requests to borrow $80,000 or $90,000 on a modest starter home, ...
NASHVILLE — On a side street where a $95,000 bungalow sits with peeling trim and a hand-lettered "for sale" sign, the problem is not the price. It is that almost no lender wants to write the mortgage. The loan is too small to be worth the p...
