Dedicated to Preserving the Heart of Music City
We're neighbors who are tired of watching single-family homes turn into weekend party rentals. Keep Nashville Local exists to get investor-owned Airbnbs out of Nashville's residential neighborhoods.
Short-term rentals belong in the commercial districts the city zoned them for — not next door to your kid's school. We're not anti-tourism. We're pro-neighborhood.
What short-term rentals did to Nashville
You've seen it on your own block. A bungalow sells to an LLC registered in another state. Three months later there are fifteen strangers rotating through it every weekend, a party bus idling on the street at 1 a.m., and a trash can nobody ever takes in. That's not a neighbor. It's a hotel with no front desk.
Nashville welcomes millions of visitors a year and Broadway does its job just fine. But an investor-owned Airbnb in a single-family home in 12 South or Lockeland Springs isn't tourism infrastructure. It's a zoning dodge that takes homes off the market and prices out the people this city is actually for.
The law is closer to our side than you think
A lot of neighbors don't realize Metro already agrees with most of this. Nashville stopped issuing new "not owner-occupied" short-term rental permits in residential zones years ago. New permits for a house nobody lives in only go to commercial and mixed-use districts. In R, RS, RM and AR2A zones, the old ones can renew — but they can't transfer. Every time one of those houses sells, the permit dies with the sale.
So the fight isn't theoretical. It's about enforcement: the unpermitted listings hiding in plain sight, the party houses operating on grandfathered permits, and the industry bills that come back to Metro Council every session trying to open residential zoning back up.
Read how the STRP rules actually work →
What you can actually do
Complaints work. Metro Codes investigates every STRP report through hubNashville, and a property with a stack of complaints is a property with a file. Document the listing, file the report, follow up with your district council member. We put the whole playbook on one page.
How to report an illegal Airbnb →
From Germantown to The Nations, East Nashville to Sylvan Park, Wedgewood-Houston to Inglewood — this is happening on every block in town.
