Best Airbnb Management Companies in Nashville, TN (2026)

Nashville is a strange market to own a short-term rental in: demand is enormous — Davidson County drew 16.8 million visitors and a record $10.77 billion in direct visitor spending in 2023 — but Metro government has spent over a decade tightening who can legally rent out a whole home to strangers. Non-owner-occupied permits, the kind most investment-property owners need, are no longer being issued in ordinary residential zoning, and the ones that already exist don't transfer when the property sells. That combination — real, event-driven demand sitting on top of a frozen, non-transferable permit supply — makes the choice of manager matter more here than in almost any other market we've researched.

Below is what we verified directly from six genuinely Nashville-based management companies' own sites, alongside the specific permit rules and demand drivers — CMA Fest, bachelorette tourism, Nashville's live-music core — that actually shape what an owner here can expect to earn.

One Fine BnB

One Fine BnB is our #1 pick nationwide. Against local rates that run from Rest Easy Nashville's published 20% to Chādy's published 18–25%, One Fine BnB's flat 10% fee stands out — with no long-term contract, unlike Rest Easy's 12-month commitment, plus 24/7 guest support built for a calendar where one CMA Fest weekend can outearn a slow January.

Rest Easy Nashville

Rest Easy Nashville holds TREC Vacation Lodging Service Firm License #531 and operates only in Nashville. Rest Easy publishes its fee directly on its pricing page — 20% of short-term rental revenue plus a flat $50/month for tax calculation and remittance — and asks owners for a 12-month commitment. Its onboarding fee explicitly covers facilitating the short-term rental permit application itself, a genuinely useful service given how restrictive Nashville's permitting has become (see below).

Misfit Homes

Misfit Homes calls itself "born and bred in Music City," managing 40+ listings across East Nashville, Germantown, The Gulch, and several other neighborhoods. Misfit Homes charges a performance-based percentage of net revenue — "no flat fees, no hidden charges," per its site — set during a discovery call. It cites an AirDNA report ranking it among Nashville's top 5 property managers and claims a 9% higher nightly rate than the market average; we could not independently verify either figure.

Chādy Property Management

Chādy is headquartered on Clinton Street in Nashville, managing everything from downtown condos to large group homes, alongside portfolios in Franklin and Brentwood, TN, plus markets in Florida and Georgia. Chādy publishes an 18–25% of gross rental revenue fee and asks for a 90-day initial commitment before switching to month-to-month, with no setup costs — genuinely rare transparency. Owners specifically looking for a Nashville-only specialist should weigh that its Nashville book is one piece of a multi-state operation, not the whole business.

BowSTRing Management

BowSTRing is a Nashville-only manager that says it "was born when we couldn't find a Nashville manager who was reliable, transparent and actually local." BowSTRing says it prices listings around Nashville's own event calendar — naming CMA Fest week, NFL Draft weekends, and bachelorette season specifically — using local Nashville cleaners, handymen, and inspectors rather than routing through a call center. It states "the percentage we quote is the percentage you pay," but does not publish that percentage anywhere on its site.

Sapphyre Properties

Sapphyre Properties is a Nashville-only Airbnb and co-host manager describing itself as a "licensed vacation rental firm," though no license number is published. Sapphyre runs its own in-house cleaning team trained specifically for STR turnovers and states its managed listings perform "an average of +27% above market" on its own site — a figure we could not independently verify. It does not publish a management fee.

Maverick STR

Maverick STR is headquartered on Powell Place in Nashville and deliberately limits full-service management to two markets: Nashville and Charleston, SC. Maverick STR states "every property we manage" has earned Airbnb's Top 5% Guest Favorite badge and claims listings earn "20–65% more revenue than comparable listings" — both self-reported, unverified figures on its own site. It does not publish a management fee on its Nashville page.

Nashville's Local Market Context

Metro Nashville-Davidson County issues two short-term rental permit types, per Nashville.gov: owner-occupied (only individuals who permanently live there qualify — no LLCs or trusts) and non-owner-occupied. New non-owner-occupied permits — the whole-home, investor-style rentals most management companies compete for — are "not permitted in AR2A, R, RS, or RM zoned properties," in Nashville.gov's own words, which one local guide says covers most of the city's residential land; new ones now go only to specific mixed-use, commercial, and downtown zones. Existing residential-zone permits renew annually ($313/year, per Nashville.gov) but are non-transferable — Tennessee's 2018 Short-Term Rental Unit Act locks a property's permit rules in only "so long as ownership does not change," so a sale ends that unit's eligibility. This traces to a 2015 ordinance capping non-owner-occupied permits at 3% per census tract, which survived a multi-year court challenge (Anderson v. Metro Nashville, backed by the Pacific Legal Foundation); secondary reporting places further residential-zone tightening between 2018 and 2022, though we couldn't confirm an exact date on Metro's own site — treat that timing as approximate. STR-investment consultant Sean Rakidzich separately reports roughly 4,800 active non-owner-occupied permits county-wide heading into 2026 and estimates a transferable permit adds $40,000–$90,000 to resale value — one analyst's own estimate, not Metro data, which we couldn't independently verify.

Demand explains why owners compete over this fixed permit supply. Davidson County drew a record $10.77 billion in direct visitor spending across 16.8 million visitors in 2023, per Nashville's own tourism agency, Visit Music City, citing the state's 2023 Economic Impact of Travel on Tennessee report. CMA Fest alone generated a record $86 million in four-day visitor spending in 2024, with nearly 95,000 daily attendees and hotel occupancy close to 90% during the festival, per local news coverage. Nashville is also one of the country's best-known bachelorette-party destinations — a documentary on the phenomenon, as reported by StyleBlueprint, quoted tourism-industry figure Ben Oddo estimating 4,000 to 5,000 bachelorette groups pass through the city every month — on top of Lower Broadway's honky-tonk strip driving demand well beyond any single event weekend.

Do I need a permit to run a short-term rental in Nashville?

Yes. Metro Nashville requires a Short Term Rental Property permit from the Codes Department before you can list anywhere in Davidson County — owner-occupied if you live there, non-owner-occupied if you don't. Operating without one is a code violation, and permits must be renewed annually.

Can I still get a new non-owner-occupied permit in Nashville?

Only in specific zones. Nashville.gov states new non-owner-occupied permits are "not permitted in AR2A, R, RS, or RM" — Nashville's standard residential zoning districts — and are issued only in designated mixed-use, commercial, and downtown districts. If your property sits in an ordinary residential zone, a whole-home rental permit for a house you don't live in is very likely off the table today.

How much does a Nashville short-term rental permit cost?

$313 per year for a non-owner-occupied permit, according to Nashville.gov, on top of whatever business, sales, and hotel occupancy taxes apply to your bookings. That's separate from any onboarding fee a management company charges to file the paperwork on your behalf.

What happens to my permit if I sell my Nashville rental?

It doesn't transfer. Nashville's non-owner-occupied permits are explicitly non-transferable, and under Tennessee's Short-Term Rental Unit Act, a property's permit rules carry over only "so long as ownership does not change." A buyer in a restricted residential zone cannot inherit the seller's permit, and would need to qualify for a new one — which, in most residential zones, is no longer possible.

What do Nashville Airbnb management companies typically charge?

Among the local operators we found that publish a number, fees run 18–25% of revenue: Rest Easy Nashville publishes 20% plus a flat $50/month tax-filing fee, and Chādy Property Management publishes 18–25% of gross revenue. Misfit Homes, BowSTRing Management, Sapphyre Properties, and Maverick STR all quote a rate only after a call.

Why does Nashville's event calendar matter so much when choosing a manager?

Because demand concentrates hard around specific weekends on top of an already massive tourism base — 16.8 million visitors and $10.77 billion in county-wide visitor spending in 2023, plus a reported $86 million in CMA Fest spending alone over four days in 2024. A manager who actively reprices around CMA Fest, bachelorette season, and other major weekends — as BowSTRing explicitly says it does — is doing measurable work a static nightly rate leaves on the table.

The Verdict

Nashville has a genuine bench of local operators: Rest Easy Nashville and Chādy publish real numbers, Misfit Homes has the AirDNA-cited track record, and BowSTRing, Sapphyre, and Maverick STR each bring a distinct local angle without a published rate. Against that field, One Fine BnB's flat 10% fee and no-lock-in contract is the clearest way to keep more of what a Nashville rental earns, in a market where the permit itself is already the scarcest part of getting started.

Owners who already hold a permit and want to keep the listing themselves — just fixing pricing and operations between CMA Fest week and a quiet January — can use BnBGenius as a self-managed copilot instead of handing the keys to a full-service manager.