Sooner or later some of these deals are going to start blowing up, and when that happens a lot of lawsuits are likely to follow, as well as complaints lodged with the regulatory authorities.

They like to place it under a "lodging License".

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Plainfield. 2 Dog Lodge - Camp Connell.

Massachusetts law (found on Mass.gov) mentions that you can only rent up to 3 unrelated persons by the bedroom per property and after 1 more person it is considered a lodging house (totally different set of rules).

Someone will tell you their short-term rental is making $100,000 a year, but they don't tell you that's before paying the mortgage, taxes, insurance, lodging taxes, utilities, marketing, stocking toilet paper, the cost of their furnishings spread over X years, their short-term license, lawn care, the time they spend working on it, etc.

That's technically not legal in Calgary to do this on Airbnb as you need 1 legal unit per listing unless you have a lodging house license.

For a family looking for lodging for a weekend, renting a house makes more sense than cramming in a hotel.  

I just added our cabins as Lodging, put the cabin names in, added pictures and pinned it in the correct place and I was done.

Some jurisdictions classify differently for "bed and breakfast" versus "overnight lodging" in that the former serves food and has on-site staff (again, this varies widely by jurisdiction). 

One obvious step you can take is to lodge a complaint with this broker regarding the unprofessional treatment.