You've staked out a reasonable position here. But the Hoteliers' cartel doesn't share your position. In public they're careful to say things such as they only

You've staked out a reasonable position here. But the Hoteliers' cartel doesn't share your position. In public they're careful to say things such as they only want the Hotel Fire Safety Act to be applied evenly, but in practice they're all too happy to push laws and regs design to kill all short term rentals by enforcing maximal regs on them. Take Tennessee, for example, where sympathetic authorities have declared that all short term rentals must be equipped with fire sprinklers [https://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2015/jan/3/cities-across-tennessee-deal-with-short-term-rental-safety-zoning-issues/ https://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2015/jan/3/cities-acro...]. There's likely a lot more of this nonsense to come.