Thank you for any adviceHi SamI am buying in Detroit, buy and holds and SFH to flipIts a mixed bag, unless you buy in the right areas you may come unstuckAlso requires skilled property management.

Personally, I'd tell them to eat a bag of male genitalia.They need to make money, I get it.

The swiftness of cities/Airbnb to enforce new laws and cancel all existing bookings leaving the property owner holding the bag is pretty shocking.  

No longer needed is the money bag drop for ransoms or blackmail and all you need is asking someone to transfer the crypto to a foreign account. 

YES I was told and yes, thousands of hosts are currently not getting paid I was told.I have two upcoming bookings with VRBO and like you wondering if I should just cancel and pull out of their system.Frankly I don't want to be the guy stuck holding the bag if they can't pay their bills.Giving people the runaround on this can't possibly inspire confidence.Luckily VRBO is a small percentage of my overall bookings.

You definitely need a website to authenticate yourself, in my opinion.

Hi @Marci Stein - mixed bag of responses in the comments. 

They only need their work clothes and maybe a bag lunch. 

Mail them a bank bag.

That will cause the buyer to walk away usually, and now the seller is stuck holding the bag while he has a non-paying tenant.