I was sympathetic to their plight around Christmas, and that they are not originally from a western culture.

If you genuinely feel bad then take money out of your own pocket and give it to them as charity but lets not further perpetuate the culture of entitlement that pervades much of this country. 

I'm not sure how much the system itself is to blame vs. our own cultural expectations and ways of interacting with it (in general - not specific to AirBNB).  

I am extremely proud of our diverse and substantial multi-cultural employee and subcontractor base of staff.

@Vanessa Deluca, they may be undecided on what entity they will take title - LLC, personal name, etc.They also may be doing a 1031 exchange which involved assigning the purchase rights to their QI.They may want the actual purchasing entity to remain anonymous for a while - think celebrities etc.They might be trying to simply get it under contract and then find a different end buyer.When the clause doesn't remove their liability to perform it eliminates most of the unscrupulous type wholesalers and is probably nothing nefarious..

It's not speculation - it's a shortage of land (and thus housing) in an area that is desirable to live due to weather, culture, etc. with a highly skilled and well-paid workforce.

As a former teacher, I've seen how bad things have become in the past decade, and it isn't going to get better any time soon.What's worse is that popular culture is embracing the misuse of words and the media propagates it as well.Its the dumbing down of American Society, and it is happening in front of our very eyes.

I know, who cares about celebrities.

I hope that you can contribute some none salesy type information about investing in internation markets in the appropriate forums her on Bigger Pockets.I am sure you will understand the culture and mantra of this board soon enough.

Anyone with a good knowledge of History (especially Cultural Anthropology) will be able to predict future patterns of human behavior based upon past human behavior.