It is an old 9 unit hotel that he has gutted down to the studs.

Gloria,Based on the excerpt below from the TN Business Tax Guide (google this for your reference), operators of residential and non-residential buildings other than hotels, motels, or rooming houses are exempt.

His clients include owners, developers, purchasers, borrowers, lenders, property managers, landlords and tenants of commercial properties, strip malls, shopping centers, restaurants, office buildings, apartment buildings, hotels, senior housing and assisted living facilities, condominiums, cooperatives, resort conversions, golf courses, and residential developments.

If not, I would settle for a decent cigar shop that carries the good stuff, and we can just smoke them outside the hotel.

The winters can be quite slow (and we have a long winter) even for the hotels. 

My contact is currently looking for any hotels that may be for sale.

So I am currently creating a pitch for my company to open up the ability to rent a room / house instead of putting employees up at local hotels.

I am considering a greater discount off the $1500 rent, trying to work out a per diem amount for the “bad days”, or putting tenants up in a hotel.

If you are going to be in the hotel business, hire a cleaning person to properly clean the unit.

A lady with 5 kids are living in hotel and asked us will we consider section 8.