and @Matthew Paul thanks for heads up and tip.I was thinking about switching the t-stat to one of the old style ones.

Keep your head about you.Ask this question:  'What reasons should I walk away from this deal?"

Just off the top of my head, I wouldn't feel super comfortable with non-US properties because properties in the US are held to HUD code (at a minimum).

We went completely distributed and virtual from the jump because I believe that's where professional services is headed in the next 10+ years.  

Go over their head to their commanding officer or the district attorney.

Any pricing-related tool offered by the OTA itself (think of VRBO, booking etc) is there to ensure you are getting heads in beds at any rate possible, just to ensure they are getting paid. 

If we bite off people’s heads when they admit disaster, it suppresses legitimate issues with these techniques.Just for context there is a lot of history with the OP and some of us on here going back years (like the thread I linked to above from about a year ago and several others if you use the search function with his name) with him minimizing the risks of how he was structuring these transactions and some of us being cautionary, warning him that exactly what happened here could happen, which made him defensive and dismissive. 

@Jay Hinrichs yes to my knowledge there are other states that changed regs.Off the top of my head.

comment of the year, as I agree - you go on many of these facebook groups and I shake my head at the amount of kool-aid people drink, and would have used the same term you used but thought it probably not as PC for me to say it. 

Ok, I actually haven't found any deals yet as I'm still reading a few books and trying to wrap my head around real estate investing.