I worked with them on some marketing campaigns, they run a pretty solid operation and have access to some pretty impressive financing packages for their offerings. 

It's all pretty easy honestly.Vrbo and Airbnb makes it easy to manage.

You need to factor in rent increases pretty much all the deals I broker since even 2018 or so are well under 1% but after raising rents and doing cosmetic rehab you can get the cashflow high and make some equity. 

Seems pretty painless, pay a fee, get inspected and keep renting STR.

This is a pretty in-depth calculation that should be handled but a tax professional.

I think that my cleaning fee is already pretty low.Airbnb is always trying to get me to lower my nightly price and cleaning fees. 

Occasionally there are some that don't ask 1000 questions and are pretty self sufficient, just trying to maximize their time and network, so those may get some consideration. 

@Zaid Mahmood I'm not in those areas but consider myself pretty experienced in the LP space.

Since MA has a pretty high price point I would suggest house hacking. 

Send via certified mail.As for your post-mortem, assuming the money is gone and it is not worth your time and effort to keep fighting for it, I personally am pretty biased against crowdfunding sites like SmallChange, CrowdStreet, and others.