For a relatively "safe" creative financing, one needs serious reserves (lots of moolah) and the ability to sell or refinance quickly when one of those "hiccups" occur.The gurus usually collect a large fee, from people who have neither money, reserves, nor experience.

Airbnb collects $ millions in garbage insurance premiums from guests but only rarely pays out anything.

Now I get to sit back, relax and collect $2300/mo in rent plus about $100k instant equity because of how the market is over there.

Quote from @Michell Chase: The signed contract states a deposit was collected, so I would make that part of your purchase agreement.

Profit wise it is also around the same which is about 15-25% but I have only been hosting for about a month in a half for this new one so I am still collecting data on it. 

How will you collect rent when the building's mechanicals are stolen again?

For market pricing, I collect LTR data from BP rent calculator and multiply by 1.5x.

How do you collect and is worth the time, effort and expense?

If one of you were to provide proof of hours, income, and activity then could qualify you in the near future.

The merchant also failed to provide proof that the cancellation policy was properly disclosed to the cardholder."