Tennessee Code Title 47. Commercial Instruments and Transactions § 47-11-110

(a) A “retail installment transaction,” as defined in § 47-11-102, or any other conditional sales contract or other agreement covering the time sale of personal property or services, and the assignment thereof, and the business of selling such personal property and services on a time payment basis, and the business of purchasing or acquiring such transactions, contracts, or agreements, whether or not regulated under this chapter, shall not be deemed to be loans or forebearances of money or things of value or the making of same, nor shall they be regulated by or subject to title 45, chapter 5, parts 1-4.

(b) “Personal property” and “services,” as used in this section, include all personal property and services, whether or not purchased for commercial or industrial use, and whether or not such personal property is affixed or to be affixed to real property so as to become a part thereof, whether or not severable from such real property.