According to the Tampa Bay Times:"The only way around the short-term rental ban is if a homeowner can show that their home had been used as a tourist rental prior to the passage of the 2006 ordinance, had been continuously used as a short-term rental since then, have a city occupational license and have paid sales tax on all rental income.If they cannot do that, and few can, homeowners faces potential fines of $250 a day if they fail to comply."

For example Orange County, FL has a combined tax of 12.5% (6% state transient rental tax + .5% County Sales Surtax + 6% Tourist Development Tax).

I get why some neighbors don't like it since brings in tourists, but tourists aren't the problem, if anything, they are helping the Denver economy overall and in turn helping the neighbors property values long-term.  

This is a very popular area with year round tourist demand and amazing beaches.

Maybe turn the place into a tourist attraction and profit off of it.One of my employees husband owns a 'real ghost house' that he charges ghosthunters to spend the night or nights there.

Its just a short jump from Vegas and has a super hot tourist vibe because of CA and the CANYONS.

There are many areas of Chicago that will never work this well for a tourist-driven short-term rental.  

I think this would be the way to go around all the mountains and tourist areas.

The Phoenix Metro Area has about 300,000 snowbirds every year with a MAJOR fiscal impact:https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2017/07/17/this-country-s-tourists-contribute-2-4-billion-to.htmlSo the county's leadership would have to be absolutely in career suicide mode to push for something like this.

When you cross, simply tell the USA agents that the purpose of your visit is mixed personal (tourist) and business meetings.