STIGMATIZED AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY IMPACTED PROPERTIES IN TENNESSEE

The Role and Responsibility of the Real Estate Agent in Disclosing Stigmatized or Psychologically Impacted Properties.

Tennessee Law: TCA 66-5-207 state “…no cause of action shall arise against an owner of real estate or a real estate licensee for failure to disclose that an occupant of the subject real property, whether or not such real property is subject to this part, was afflicted with HIV or other disease which has been determined by medical evidence to be highly unlikely to be transmitted through the occupancy of a dwelling place;

or that the real estate was the site of: An act or occurrence which had no effect on the physical structure of the real property, its physical environment or the improvements located thereon; a homicide, felony or suicide,.”

An agent does not disclose any information about Stigmatized or Psychologically Impacted Properties without the written authorization of the property owner. Without authorization, the agent’s response to any questions about Stigmatized or Psychologically Impacted Properties should be —“Tennessee Law prohibits me from answering that question”.