TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 1, 2024

The Lone Mountain Shores Homeowners Association (HOA) is back in court, appealing a decision that its covenants are too ambiguous to ban short-term vacation rentals, Knox News reports. The group pledged to appeal the decision in April after a Claiborne County judge found that a neighborhood rule limiting homes to "single family residential purposes" can include renters who use the properties like a home. It had sued renters in August 2023. In a separate case, the Tennessee Supreme Court held in 2023 that "residential" could be interpreted many ways and is not clear enough to ban listings on sites like Airbnb or Vrbo. In a counter suit, homeowners opposed to allowing short-term rentals accuse the HOA board of moving forward based on a fraudulent vote.