Don't Brace. Organise.

The mainstream take is that regulation is coming for short-term lets and operators should brace. I think that misses it. Regulation being undecided is not a threat. It is a window.And here's what should worry operators: look at the rest of Europe. Spain, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands. In almost every case the sector only mobilised after the rules landed, when the leverage was already gone. England is the rare market where the detail is still being written. That advantage doesn't last.So the move isn't to brace. It's to organise. I'm a member of the STAA and I'd point anyone serious about this in their direction. They're already in the room on the use class and registration questions, with the relationships across Westminster to actually shape the detail. The more operators behind them, the louder that voice is.Shaping this now, before the statutory instruments land, is worth more than any amount of fighting it later.Are operators going to shape this, or wait to be shaped by it?What's your read. The window's open now, so what should operators be doing to get behind the people already fighting this?