They are included everywhere else I can think of. 

The quality of the property and the tenant pool you will be renting to out of state matters more than you think.

Unfortunately, the tenant didn’t think me showing up to have a brief conversation was important enough to fit me in her busy schedule.

I think if you set up your platform listings appropriately you will do well.You could also contact local wedding and event coordinators and make them aware of your listing.

Wants what he thinks is a market price for something but doesn't understand the albatross he has created over the last 20 years. 

We have had duplexes with shared water, sewer, and trash billing, as well as shared driveways.The long term tenants act more like owner occupants, planting flowers, etc. and in some cases neighbors think that they are the owners. 

I hear a lot of landlords tout tenancy at will (m2m) because they think it will be easier to evict a tenant if things go south.  

I think they've done a great job of building their product and if you already have a property listed on Airbnb, it's super easy to import to MiniStays (though it's not difficult to list your property there if you don't.)

Do you guys think there will be regulations that will be created around this that might affect those companies, or worse smaller businesses?

When this has me thinking that we also need to be talking about zoning, zoning, zoning.