152 Cavanaugh Ln

A log home on 10 wooded acres outside Byrdstown, Tennessee, about a mile and a half from Sunset Marina on Dale Hollow Lake, listed at $249,000. The home is 1,488 square feet, two bedrooms and two bathrooms, built in 1995, and sold as-is.

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The approach

The home sits back from Cavanaugh Lane down a circular gravel driveway, wooded on both sides and private at the end of it. The listing says the property has been owned by the same family for more than 25 years, and the trees around the drive and yard look the part: mature hardwoods with real canopy, not a recent clearing.

The parcel runs close to 10 acres and the listing states it adjoins land held by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the shoreline around Dale Hollow Lake. That adjoining boundary is a meaningful detail for anyone weighing privacy and future development risk next door, since Corps land generally stays undeveloped. Confirm the exact boundary line with the agent or a survey before treating it as a guarantee.

Walkthrough

Inside, the main level opens into a run of connected rooms finished in log paneling: a living and dining area that leads into the kitchen, with a separate vaulted family room off to the side.

The vaulted family room is the standout room in the house. Tall windows run across one wall, the ceiling follows the roofline in tongue-and-groove wood, and the floor is hardwood rather than the carpet used through the rest of the main level.

One bedroom and a full bathroom are on the main level. The listing describes the upstairs as a large bedroom, a second full bathroom, and the laundry room, and the photos show additional sleeping space finished under the exposed roof beams beyond the primary upstairs bedroom, useful if this property is being considered as a rental rather than a single-family home.

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Outside and the lake

Covered porches run along the front and back of the house, and the listing lists a storage building and space for a fire pit as part of the outdoor setup. None of the photos show a dock, boat access, or direct lake frontage, so this is a wooded property near the lake rather than a waterfront one. The drone photography does confirm the lake itself is close by: Dale Hollow’s main channel and the Sunset Marina docks are both visible from altitude a short flight from the house.

The facts

What to know before you call

This is a sold as-is property, and the listing frames it as priced to let a new owner make updates rather than a move-in-ready home. The main living spaces are finished and photograph well, but ask the agent directly what “as-is” covers here before assuming it only means cosmetic work.

The listing’s own facts panel gives two different annual tax figures across the page: an estimated $883 in the payment section and a $749 figure in the public tax history for 2025. We used the public tax history figure, since it is drawn from an actual county record rather than an estimate, but confirm the current number with the county before budgeting around either one.

The property is priced at $249,000, currently listed as of 8/4/2026 with no other price-history detail worth reporting beyond that.

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Kelly Latham at RE/MAX Country Living, LLC is the listing agent and handles showings. Reach her through the brokerage. More like this lands in the Monday email, including more deals like this one, which you can also track directly through foreclosure.com.