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Does Tennessee Have an HOA Law? What Actually Governs Your Association

Tennessee has no single, comprehensive homeowners' association act. There is no Volunteer State equivalent of Florida's Chapter 720, Texas's Chapter 209, or California's Davis-Stirling Act. If you are a board member searching for "the Tennessee HOA law" so you can look up your notice period or your fine cap, you will not find one, because it does not exist. What Tennessee has instead is a layered set of sources, and which ones apply to your community depends almost entirely on one question: is your community a condominium or not? Most of the confusion in online guidance comes from writers who never ask that question, then quote condominium statutes at single-family boards who are not covered by them. Here is the actual framework.

MyFrontYard · September 9, 2026