Short-Term Rentals in Tennessee (2026)

No one may operate a short-term vacation rental in Chattanooga without first obtaining a certificate from the…

It's unlawful to operate or advertise a short-term rental in Clarksville without an operating permit under Sec. 5-303…

Franklin requires every short-term vacation rental (STVR), a dwelling with four or fewer sleeping rooms rented for…

No one may operate a Short-Term Vacation Rental anywhere in unincorporated Hamilton County without first obtaining a…

Knoxville STR operators must apply through the business license and tax office, naming a 24/7 local contact who can…

Memphis requires short-term rental owners to register electronically or in writing with the Division of Public Works…

Metro Nashville requires an STRP permit from the Department of Codes Administration before operating or advertising a…

Before renting, you must obtain an initial business license through the Rutherford County Clerk (and your city) and…

Shelby County's STR registration is handled by the County Clerk under Chapter 8, Article XVIII. A permit expires 365…

Chattanooga requires short-term vacation rental occupants to follow all City noise restrictions, expressly…

Franklin requires every short-term vacation rental occupant to follow the city's standard peace-and-quiet noise…

Short-term rental guests and owners in Memphis must follow the city's general noise ordinance under City Code §…

Nashville doesn't write STR-specific decibel limits: permitted short-term rentals must follow the same citywide noise…

Shelby County requires STR permit holders and their guests to follow the county's noise control provisions in Section…

Tennessee imposes statewide sales tax on short-term rental stays and authorizes local hotel-motel occupancy taxes, with…

Chattanooga charges a nonrefundable short-term vacation rental application fee under Sec. 38-89(b): $500 to initially…

Every Clarksville short-term rental owner has to pay the hotel/motel tax, sales tax, gross receipts tax, and standard…

Franklin, Tennessee requires every short-term vacation rental owner or responsible party to collect and remit all room…

Knox County levies a 5% occupancy tax on gross receipts from hotels, motels, campgrounds, and other lodging including…

Knoxville charges short-term rental operators a $70 application fee for an owner-occupied Type 1 permit and $120 for…

Memphis short-term rental owners pay a 3.5% privilege tax on top of a $2.00-per-night marketing assessment under City…

Nashville requires every short-term rental permit holder to collect and remit all room, occupancy, and sales taxes owed…

Rutherford County hosts owe three taxes: state business tax on gross receipts, state and local sales tax, and a 5%…

Shelby County levies a 5% hotel/motel room occupancy tax on transient lodging, collected by the County Clerk under…

Chattanooga's short-term vacation rental code requires adequate on-site parking sized to guest count and bars parking…

Every Short-Term Vacation Rental permitted in Hamilton County's unincorporated zoning districts must provide off-street…

Every Knoxville short-term rental application must include a site plan showing designated off-street parking spaces and…

Short-term rental properties in Metro Nashville must provide parking as required by the zoning code's off-street…

Chattanooga caps how many bedrooms and how many people a short-term vacation rental can hold. Sec. 38-88(e) limits a…

A Clarksville short-term rental can't host more transient guests than the maximum occupancy printed on its operating…

Franklin caps every short-term vacation rental at ten occupants at any one time, bars renting the same unit to more…

Hamilton County caps how many guests a Short-Term Vacation Rental can sleep: no more than five sleeping rooms, and…

Knoxville caps a short-term rental unit at two transients per bedroom plus two more, with an absolute ceiling of twelve…

Memphis doesn't set one citywide headcount for short-term rentals; instead, § 5-44-5(C)(1) makes each owner declare the…

Metro Nashville caps short-term rental occupancy at twice the number of sleeping rooms plus four, posted inside the…

Shelby County's STR permit application sets the maximum transient capacity per night on the permit and limits a…

Franklin requires every short-term vacation rental owner to carry homeowner's fire, hazard, and liability insurance…

Memphis requires every short-term rental permit applicant to prove at least $1,000,000 in fire, hazard, and liability…

Nashville requires STRP permit applicants to submit proof of homeowner's fire, hazard, and liability insurance, with…

Shelby County requires STR applicants to submit proof of homeowner's fire, hazard, and liability insurance, with…

Shelby County's STR ordinance sets no annual cap on the number of nights a property can be rented. It requires a…

Homestay short-term rental applicants must actually live on the property and prove it annually, with a driver's…

Shelby County does not require the host to be present during a stay, but it does require a Responsible Party whose name…

Knoxville's Type 1 short-term rental ordinance explicitly says the owner-host doesn't have to remain on site or be…

Chattanooga splits short-term vacation rentals into two occupancy classes under Sec. 38-85: a homestay, defined as the…

Metro Nashville's owner-occupied short-term rental permit requires the owner to occupy the property as their primary…

Knoxville's Type 1 short-term rental permit, the only option in residential zoning districts, can go only to an owner…

Non-owner-occupied 'absentee' short-term rentals are confined to Chattanooga's mixed-use and commercial zones that…

Franklin's short-term vacation rental rules only cover stays of 21 consecutive days or less: leases longer than 21…

Renting a single-family home in unincorporated Hamilton County for 31 consecutive days or longer falls outside the…

Chattanooga revokes a short-term vacation rental certificate after three documented Code or state-law violations tied…

Three or more complaints against a Franklin STVR in one calendar year trigger written notice, and the Board of Mayor…

Memphis revokes a short-term rental permit after three violations of local law tied to the property's operation. City…

Metro Nashville can revoke a short-term rental permit once the zoning administrator finds three violations of the Metro…

Memphis makes a hosting platform solely liable for collecting and remitting STR occupancy and sales tax once it signs a…

Shelby County makes a hosting platform like Airbnb or Vrbo solely liable for collecting and remitting the county's…