Rutherford County and Murfreesboro impose no rule requiring the host to be present or on-site during a short-term rental stay. Unhosted, whole-home rentals are allowed.
Neither Rutherford County nor Murfreesboro requires an owner or manager to stay on the property during guest stays, and there is no on-site host, resident-manager, or local-contact ordinance dedicated to short-term rentals. Whole-home and unhosted rentals operate the same as owner-occupied ones under local rules. Under the Tennessee Short-Term Rental Unit Act, any restriction a city did adopt could not retroactively bar a property already used as an STR (T.C.A. 13-7-603 legacy protection). As a practical matter, most platforms and insurers expect a responsible local contact who can respond to problems, so hosts often designate one even though the county does not require it.
No local host-presence penalty exists. General nuisance, noise, and property maintenance code still applies whether or not a host is on site.
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