A private surveillance company has skirted local regulations by installing dozens of cameras on public property without approval from the city of Fort Worth, an investigation by the Fort Worth Report has found.  Flock Safety, a $4 billion technology behemoth known for its automatic license plate readers, maintains hundreds of surveillance cameras in the city, most of which are used by Fort Worth Police to help fight crime. But records obtained by the Report show the company has also placed ...

An ordinance passed by the Ashland City Town Council four years ago is causing a messy dispute between local condominium owners and the Ashland City Public Utilities Department.  Joy Corn, who has lived in Hickory Hills for eight years and has served for six years in leadership on their homeowner’s association, claims the town is charging residents for a service they are not receiving   Read the article…………………………….

The Retreat at Deer Lick Falls is a tiny home community in Monteagle. Those currently named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit are seeking to end the developer’s conservatorship over the community so that they may govern themselves through the homeowners’ association (HOA). They have alleged several breaches of fiduciary duty and request $250,000 in damages.   Read the article…………………………….

License plate readers have been approved by the city, but the mayor is withholding citywide funding for the time being.  Meanwhile, a neighborhood in Bellevue is paying for it themselves and residents say it has been successful. This is to add onto yet another neighborhood, Haynes Park in Bordeaux, who also saw the same success.    Read the article…………………………….

Devin Schultz is the president of the Harpeth Crest Homeowner’s Association. In the early 2000s, when his neighborhood was built, the developer was required to create a stormwater detention system. Schultz believes the Ariza Bellevue plan puts their system in jeopardy.   Read the article…………………………….

A Knoxville homeowner was astonished when she received notice of a lien placed on her house by her homeowners’ association.  Sharon Hartless is a real estate investor owning five homes in Knoxville and three in Florida. As a result, she is familiar with the rules and regulations of HOAs. Homeowners associations play a role in preserving curb appeal and property values of condo communities and subdivisions. Tennessee, like many states, has laws that specifically address homeowners associations and the way ...

A unit in a newly built condominium community caught fire in the White Bridge community on Thursday morning.  The Nashville Fire Department responded to the corner of Lenox Avenue and Oceola Avenue around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday. Heavy smoke was visible coming from the structure.   Read the article…………………………….

A Nashville woman is upset over fines from her homeowners association (HOA).  The problem is a dented garage door the homeowner told FOX 17 News was there when she bought the place. It’s a cautionary tale on what every Midstate homeowner needs to know.  Read the article…………………………….

A Knoxville homeowner was astonished when she received notice of a lien placed on her house by her homeowners’ association.  Sharon Hartless is a real estate investor owning five homes in Knoxville and three in Florida. As a result, she is familiar with the rules and regulations of HOAs. Homeowners associations play a role in preserving curb appeal and property values of condo communities and subdivisions.   Read the article…………………………….

When a Claiborne County judge ruled in March the covenants of a Norris Lake neighborhood were too ambiguous for its homeowners association to ban short-term vacation rentals like Airbnb, it seemed like a years-long dispute might end.  But in Lone Mountain Shores, the divide between neighbors who want the rentals and those who don’t is set to continue as the HOA board appeals the court ruling and as homeowners accuse the board of trying to eliminate rentals with a fraudulent ...

It’s been nearly eight years since wildfires tore through Gatlinburg, killing 14 people and burning more than 11,000 acres of land. While many homes and businesses have been rebuilt, one of the major developments lost in the fire has just now completed construction.  Highlands of the Smokies, a luxury condo resort, was completely lost in the fire and spent years struggling to determine the next steps for the development.    Read the article…………………………….

Property owners of The Retreat at Deer Lick Falls are seeking $250,000 in damages. According to the lawsuit, what was originally touted as a haven of tiny homes in Monteagle has become a developer-controlled nightmare…….filed the lawsuit asking the court to end the period of developer control over its homeowners association    Read the article…………………………….

A two-alarm fire at condominiums in Madison is kept from spreading by firefighters.  Crews responded to 225 Ellington Place Sunday just before 3 p.m. for a fire. They contained the fire to two of the six units, but power had to be cut to the entire building, said the Nashville Fire Department.    Read the article…………………………….

During a committee meeting in Tellico Village on July 9, a few residents in attendance had questions about recent goings-on in the community.  The meeting was held by the nonpartisan Governmental Affairs Committee (GAC), which researches the workings of governmental and quasi-governmental organizations that impact life in the Village. Part of its role is to act as a liaison and advocate for the Village and to lead community activism and get-out-the-vote efforts.    Read the article…………………………….

Demand for Nashville condominiums is strong, especially in the downtown core. But what should potential buyers know about getting into the market?  The top questions revolve around price and location, Parks | Compass broker Sydney McCann said. In the downtown Nashville area, median home prices over the past 12 months are around $660,000, according to data from the Greater Nashville Realtors.    Read the article…………………………….

He needs to scale back his anger.  A Tennessee man had a meltdown and snapped a 15-year-old boy’s $200 fishing rod because he was fishing in a community pond, a wild viral video shows.  Two young friends were fishing when the irate man charged one of them, grabbed his fishing pole and snapped it over his knee.    Read the article…………………………….

he United States Department of Justice said Tellico Village Property Owners Association (TVPOA) agreed to pay more than $1.3 million after receiving a Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, loan it was ineligible for.  The DOJ said the association applied for, received, and obtained forgiveness for the PPP loan after Congress created it in March 2020 as part of the CARES Act.    Read the article…………………………….

A group of people in the Lake Tansi community are raising concerns after they said a property owner’s association there decided to start removing and euthanizing Canadian geese. The association said they needed to euthanize the geese to protect the lake and the homeowners there.     Read the article…………………………….

The insurance fallout from the Christmas Day 2020 bombing in downtown Nashville continues, with a federal court deciding this week that Aspen Specialty Insurance must cover millions in replacement costs for a heavily damaged condominium building.   Read the article…………………………….

Homeowners in Antioch are furious because they say their Homeowner Association fees increased 75% in the last seven months and they say they are not being told why.  A group of homeowners at Lenox Creekside Condominium in Antioch are frustrated with their HOA fees.  Bartolovich says it’s impossible to get answers from the HOA board about why fees are rising.    Read the article…………………………….

Two people were found dead in a West Knoxville residence overnight Monday after what investigators believe to be a murder-suicide domestic situation. The Knoxville Police Department and Knoxville Fire Department responded to the scene.   Read the article…………………………….

Two people were found dead in a West Knoxville residence overnight Monday after what investigators believe to be a murder-suicide domestic situation. The Knoxville Police Department and Knoxville Fire Department responded to the scene.   Read the article…………………………….

When Ken Baker purchased his home in Timber Springs in 2022, he was glad to see there would be no homeowner’s association. As he signed to purchase the home, he said, an HOA was never mentioned, verbally or contractually.  But a year later, in February 2023, Baker got a letter in the mail saying a meeting would be held to turn over an HOA from the developer to the residents of Timber Springs. He and several neighbors were caught off ...

A fire caused some serious damage to an Antioch condo Wednesday night, but everyone managed to get out safely.   The Nashville Fire Department (NFD) said the blaze broke out inside a condo in the 3400 block of Anderson Lane on Wednesday, March 20.   Read the article…………………………….

Franklin Fire Department was dispatched just before 7 PM to the single story, 2-unit building on Morrissey St. Firefighters arrived less than 4 minutes later to find flames and heavy black smoke coming from an open garage door. They quickly knocked down the fire, preventing it from extending into the residence and to the adjoining unit.   Read the article…………………………….

A national debate about Airbnbs became local in an East Tennessee neighborhood where the homeowners association sued some of its own members who used their homes as short-term vacation rentals.   Read the article…………………………….

Homeowners just north of Memphis’ Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood are pleading for help after multiple calls to the city about an abandoned apartment community right in their backyard.  Denise Cavett is the President of the Hubert Homeowner’s Association. She said she has lived there for 46 years and what was once a peaceful apartment community that sat behind her home has turned into blight.   Read the article…………………………….

The great gate debate over the plan to block two public streets leading into Chickasaw Gardens to create a safer neighborhood created division among council members Tuesday.  Read the article………………………….

Chris Cox, assistant Cumberland County Emergency Management Agency, said Wednesday night the fire would continue to burn for several days within the contained area.  No injuries were reported, but the Chronicle learned at least one family lost their year-round home when their condo was destroyed in the blaze. The fire consumed two buildings the housed 12 condo units.   Read the article………………………………

People who live in a residential neighborhood in Sevier County were alarmed when one of the homes in their community was listed as a short-term rental. It didn’t take long to nip the issue in the bud, for those living in the relatively new subdivision.    Read the article…………………………..

Yard signs welcoming or not welcoming vacationers to Lone Mountain Shores have come down, but residents say the sharp divide over short-term vacation rentals is very much alive in the Norris Lake development, where newly and narrowly elected board members will continue to pursue an inherited contentious court case against neighbors.    Read the article………………………………….

Multiple families were displaced after a fire that began in two garages spread and damaged multiple condos near Priest Lake on Tuesday, according to the Nashville Fire Department.  Officials said heavy fire began in two garages before spreading into one of the condos, that’s when a second alarm was called to the scene.   Read the article……………………………

The Coffee County government is currently seeking to reintroduce to the state for approval, a resolution that will limit it’s liability in homeowner association fees on unused property in the county.  Read the article………………………………….

An East Tennessee man was surprised with Homeowner’s Association fees that were part of the closing costs on his home in Knoxville. Another thing that caught his attention was the HOA fees that the buyer of his home had to pay.    Read the article…………………………….

The Coffee County government is currently seeking to reintroduce to the state for approval a resolution that if approved, would limit it’s liability in homeowner association fees on unused property in the county.   Read the article…………………………………

One Tennessee homeowner has taken a short-term vacation rental dispute with his homeowners association to the state’s highest court in the first Tennessee Supreme Court case specific to short-term rentals in the age of Airbnb and Vrbo.   Read the article…………………………….

Sunday will mark one year since a fire destroyed Tellico Village’s Tanasi Golf Clubhouse in Loudon County.  On the Saturday afternoon of Aug. 27, 2022, a fire broke out in the kitchen of the Tanasi Golf Clubhouse. The fire quickly spread and engulfed the entire building, reducing it to ash and smoldering ruins.   Read the article………………………..

What would you do to try to keep your neighborhood safe?  For people who live in Chickasaw Gardens, the Homeowners Association thinks it could be gating off some of the public entrances.   Read the article………………………..

A legal fight on a mountaintop in Tennessee has divided neighbors over the question of whether vacation rentals like Airbnb should be allowed in their residential community.  Read the article………………………..

A feverish fight over short-term rentals in the neighborhood, which was established on Norris Lake in 1998 and now includes around 165 homes, has landed in court and split the community in two.   Read the article………………………..

Some “beautiful” oak trees in Smithfield subdivision have caused consternation for the Town, as the trees are damaging the road and sidewalks.  However, Town leaders and Smithfield residents have settled on a solution: Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved an agreement and restrictive covenant with Smithfield Homeowners Association regarding public infrastructure repairs during the Board’s meeting Thursday, July 27.   Read the article………………………..

The Bennie Dillon condominium association was headed toward financial ruin. In early 2021, a handful of residents determined that the board president, Jonathan Turner, a longtime resident at the historic skyscraper across from the Nashville Public Library downtown, had to be stopped — residents say the deficit spending was unsustainable and his board initiatives were expensive, petty and personal.Read the article………………………..

ity officials have promised to work on an ongoing issue involving flooding in a Southwest Memphis neighborhood after frustrated neighbors called the WREG Problem Solvers.  Candy Banks said she was tired of seeing puddles on her street when it wasn’t raining.   Read the article………………………..

A Green Hills condominium complex is bracing for a planned power outage on what is expected to be the hottest day of the year so far.  Four Seasons Condominiums on Hillsboro Pike will be out of power as Nashville Electric Service (NES) crews replace two power poles Saturday. The NES website shows the planned outage extending from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.   Read the article………………………..

People who live in almost 70 condos and townhomes off Nolensville Pike are displaced. It’s been that way since Christmas Day and families still don’t know when they will return.   Read the article………………………..

A new legislative bill, SB 0863, has been introduced that would require all board members of a unit owners’ association within the state of Tennessee to conduct a reserve study on or before January 1, 2024, if they have not had one performed since January 1, 2023.   Read the article………………………..

A disabled couple told News 2 they feel trapped in their home after they say their homeowner’s association made them take down their wheelchair ramp.  It’s a situation that has residents in the Mt. Juliet Cedar Creek Commons neighborhood outraged.   Read the article………………………..

(See 2nd case) In this case, a homeowners’ association (“HOA”) and the owner of property within a development dispute the scope and applicability of certain restrictive covenants. In 2015, Dr. Pratik Pandharipande purchased a home and leased it as a short-term rental property.  Read the article………………………..

Michelle Webster with the areas homeowner’s association said the delivery issues began when they replaced the old central mailbox on Alandee Street with a new one.  Giving the local office the requested 72-hour notice and a master key, but post office officials tell them they struggled to get that key.    Read the article………………………..

Residents of a Lebanon neighborhood built as a golf course community want to keep it that way and have secured a zoning change through the city to do it.   Five Oaks in Lebanon has more than 500 single-family, townhomes and apartment units that include a private 18-hole golf course, pool, tennis courts and 21,000-square-foot clubhouse with a restaurant.   Read the article………………………..