Can you ask him/her if there are any pre fabricated hotel models he's seen?

I visit my out-of-state properties twice a year and it's more than $2.5K when you look at plane tickets, hotel stays, car rental, etc. not to mention there is added risk when you can't drive by your property from time-to-time.

New condos, mixed-use office space, hotels, parks, pedestrian/biker friendly European style roads, and walking bridges are all under construction right now.

Because Saturday and Sunday only amounted to two days, and you would have no business-related activities on these days, the fact that you had to stay until/through Monday to finish the seminar, still means that majority of the time there was spent on deductible activities - thus whole trip, including air and hotel is deductible.

I had a friend that rented a house to that third party on a contract basis as the nurses and other staff preferred to stay in a rental rather than a hotel.

The problem is that there are no limits on how many short-term rentals a single property owner can operate, he said.In some Arizona cities, Drennon said, “bad actors” are buying and converting entire apartment buildings into Airbnb rentals, effectively creating hotels in residential areas and depleting local supplies of rental housing.By contrast, traditional hotels typically operate in commercial areas that have much higher property tax rates.Many cities around the world — from Paris to New York City and even Airbnb’s home city of San Francisco — have laws that limit short-term rentals to protect the hotel industry and residential neighborhoods.

TREIA, the Deal Maker mtgs(I think they still meet near RDU Airport at a hotel), and there is a Meetup here through BP that meets monthly I think. 

Vacation homes are a different beast than long term rentals, you have to operate more like a hotel than an apartment.

@Brian OrrI attended https://response.com/ 3 day seminar in local hotel.

Many cities already have taxes on hotel income (9.5% in Baltimore), so the short-term income tax seems fair even though many hotels get other benefits and tax breaks from many cities.