@Collin SchwartzMIH my friend.

My friend who is in same situation get response back after emailing him.

I have a good friend who owns a few small hotels that uses Hostaway and was able to do a Zoom call with him so he could show me the process. 

However, this isn't the wild wild west anymore where real estate scams happens to your cousin brother's friend on a weekly basis. 

I found 4 acres owned by a friend who wanted to sell.

We purchased a property in early October and are placing it in service this week (mid November).We had intended to run a cost segregation study and try to accelerate depreciation which we can deduct against our W2 (assuming material participation).However, we have been reading through the IRS guidelines (eg publication 946 on Property Depreciation) and there seems to be the concept of "short year" which would mean that we can only deduct ~1.5/12 of a year's worth of depreciation in 2024.Is this correct or are there any different rules for STRs specifically?

Do you have friends or family local? 

Maybe "a friend" used your computer and impacted the algorithm...

Most likely, the only way you will find something like that is through private lending with friends/family.What is low money down to you, percentage wise? 

If you get it back expect to pay a good amount in legal feesIf you’re friend did the same they are up the creek too.Hard lesson to learn.