NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A North Nashville neighborhood is teaming up to get rid of short-term rental properties in their community.
Hope Gardens is a tight-knit community right outside downtown Nashville with about 200 houses. Kevin Griffith, Hope Gardens Neighborhood Association President, told News 2 about 20% of those homes are short-term rentals.
The main problem, according to Griffith and other neighbors, isn’t that there are so many STRs — rather that their owners don’t actually live in them.
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Griffith told News 2 it’s become more common over the last year for investors living in other states or in other areas of Nashville to apply for an owner-occupied rental permit and manage their rental home from afar…