Franklin, TN HOA Rules: Assessment & Dues (2026)

1 requires the applicant to record a declaration of covenants and restrictions before the association can hold it. That declaration must make HOA membership mandatory for every property owner and every successive owner (subsection D), must give the association the ability to place a lien on residential properties to secure collection of assessments the HOA levies (subsection E), and must grant the City authority to step in and maintain the open space if necessary, assessing the cost jointly and severally against the owners (subsection F).

13, Maintenance: open space must be kept in reasonable order per the approved site plan, and the Department of Building and Neighborhood Services may serve written notice of deficiencies on the HOA, the property owners association, or the owners directly. If the deficiencies are not corrected within 30 days of that notice, the Department may correct them itself and assess the full cost jointly and severally against every property in the development with a right of enjoyment of the open space. That cost becomes a lien on each property, effective from the date the lien is filed in the Register's Office of Williamson County.

The declaration cannot be structured to avoid this: the association may not dissolve or dispose of the open space or facilities except to another entity organized to own and maintain them, and any transfer must still conform to the approved site plan (subsection C).