It is common practice for mortgage companies to later sell the already funded loan to a 3rd party like a hedge fund or a bank after the fact.

Best practice is to keep one or two payments in reserve from the buyers down payment for such instances.

Seems like a good idea in theory maybe not in practice. 

I know the founder and know that they've set out to build a platform that takes the best features of sites like Furnished Finder and Airbnb and leaves out the clunkiness and annoying policies and practices.

They are a horrible company with unethical billing practices.

Your tenants obligation was to pay you on Jan 1, so it doesn't matter if they paid someone else they still owe you...obviously details re: notice and dates all come into play here and from a practical perspective I'd work with the tenant and not move to evict over this.

The Justice Department’s acting assistant attorney general, Doha Mekki, put it bluntly: this case is about ending the practice of “putting profits over people.”

Figure out how to actually analyze property and practice.

The whole "he's open-sourcing everything for the world" thing sounds nice, but in practice, a lot of those ideas haven’t exactly panned out the way he claimed they would. 

I applaud your desire to expose the practices which created loss and financial hardship for so many.