@William127....William, it's really hard get a HOA/Strata management group to accept short term rentals. The main stumbling block is you will possibly void their insurance because you have altered the risk the insurer accepted when they offered a policy! Your own general insurer will certainly cancel your policy if they have knowledge of short term rental taking place and this could impact on the whole community!
Some of the smaller authorities can be a little more laid back. I did hear of one who accepted a short term rental into the community because the host contributed 20% of his earnings into the property management fund and just upped his rate to cover some of it!
But in hundreds of post on this topic that was the only successful one I heard of.
William, keep on the right side of them, try and offer an incentive of sorts and show that you are passionate about what you are doing and want to be proactive where the HOA is concerned and you never know, you may turn out to be another success story!!
Cheers.....Rob