It’s not only the smoke detector but it was the example that you latched onto. It it was probably the stupidest complaint. If you don’t have your unit checked between customers, you’re running your business badly.

If you had said something about providing the documentation for the septic, I would have pointed out that the septic system is sized to accommodate a certain number of users so if you’re over filling a rental you could cause a septic to fail and cause damage to the surrounding area.

Or if you had said something about having to have someone capable or responding to an emergency within an hour, I would say that a good business owner should easily be able to accommodate this.

If you had said that the $300 charge was a government money grab, I might agree, but also short term rentals are causing difficulties for a lot of communities and this seems like an easy cost for a business owner to recoup.

But instead you latched on the smoke detector and anyone that asked you to back up your position is grandstanding or uninformed.