There are groups like the National Apartment Association that lobby on behalf of landlords.

If all you have are Short term rentals and some jag off takes hotel lobby donations and either makes them illegal or highly taxed, now your portfolio is bust, but balancing between multiple exit strategies would allow you the ability to ride out hiccups. 

I am new to Commercial investing, but I had an idea recently to turn an older movie theater that had gone out of business into a rock climbing gym.

Its very unsightly, when I've spent a lot of money making our lobby and shop very clean.

The big unions for both taxis and hotels lobby to get these things out of their areas.

Landlords need a strong, kickass lobby that can head off this take-over of personal property rights.

The Baltimore govt would lobby to have you burned at the stake downtown. 

There are 40,000 nice houses with nice furniture for rent in the area, and the only thing to compete on in that bucket is racing to the bottom on price, unless you're able to compete on the experience (themes, arcades, theater, etc). 

I don’t own any cabins with theater rooms but I am working with a client who built one and was able to source actual theater chairs from a theater that was closing.

I wonder if there is any national-level short term rental lobby group that is opposing some of the more restrictive STR proposed ordinances in a professional and organized way rather than just city-by-city?