One factor is how costly (including time) the jursidiction's laws and judicial system makes it is to get rid of a tenant. A high paying tourist is far, far les

One factor is how costly (including time) the jursidiction's laws and judicial system makes it is to get rid of a tenant. A high paying tourist is far, far less likely to squat or otherwise be a long term problem. I have a business partner who used to rent hotel rooms to long term guests stop because the government took 6+ months to remove non paying guests. So the solution was to simply forbid everyone from staying for more than the number of nights that qualifies a hotel guest as a tenant and hence tenants' rights. In fact, this problem of the county government not adjudicating tenant-landlord cases quickly enough got so bad, that the city government passed an ordinance that forbade hotels from renting more than 15% of hotel rooms to long term guests that qualify as tenants, because the city itself no longer wanted to deal with squatters and the accompanying problems.