The Southern Appalachian Mountain region - Western North Carolina, Northern Georgia, Eastern Tennessee, Northwestern South Carolina and Southwestern Virginia - has been attracting the attention of retiring Baby-boomers and entrepreneurial Gen-Xers in droves since the turn of the millennium. The vast majority of them hail from densely populated, metropolitan areas of essentially flat topography, which gives them little, if any experience to tackle the job of finding an appropriate home site on which to build their dream-home. Whether that home site is for use as a second-home, vacation-home or...