Renewing a Nashville short-term rental permit, and what happens if you miss it
Every Nashville short-term rental permit has to be renewed each year, before it expires. For some permits a missed renewal can’t be undone.
Checked against Metro’s pages on 6 November 2026. A guide, not legal advice: Metro decides every application.
How renewal works
- A permit is valid for 365 days and must be renewed before it expires.
- Metro emails every address on the permit 60 and 45 days before it expires. Check junk folders.
- You fill in the Short Term Rental Renewal Affidavit and email it to Metro for review.
- If the review succeeds, Metro emails payment instructions. The permit isn’t renewed until it’s paid.
- Renewals need proof that room, occupancy and sales taxes are paid, as well as property tax.
Metro’s renewal page says owners are responsible for renewing on time and Metro isn’t. You can check a permit’s status on ePermits at any time, or with the address check on this site.
If it lapses
A lapsed permit means applying again as if new. For a not-owner-occupied permit in a residential zone (AR2A, R, RS or RM), that isn’t possible: Metro issues no new not-owner-occupied permits there, and an existing one can’t be transferred if the property is sold. So for those permits, the renewal is what keeps the rental legal at all.
Reminders
This site sends free reminders 90, 60 and 30 days before your permit expires. They go by permit number and read the expiry from Metro’s register each day, so after you renew, the next year’s reminders follow on their own.