I could write pages about how terrible this has been.

Lennar in general is terrible, would not buy anything from them.

(even though it sounds like a crazy tenant with no justification for those numbers, what if they really did have justification and won their case)I don't want to be wiped out completely in a terrible event, i'd rather just lose the rental property and not have my personal assets be at risk....exact reason LLCs exist.  

Granted, they are managing tenants in a popular fix and flip area where folks just get a lease signed above market to appear great, sell the property then realize the tenant is terrible and are stuck.

ThanksI agree with this statement as it relates to vanilla real estate investing IE buying rentals or fix and flipping wholesaling etc those are all basic concepts that are not terribly hard to figure out..

Again, they transact quietly.The few exceptions are a handful of very large foreclosures (e.g. 3200 units in Houston) with terrible operators. 

I'm terrible at hiring. 

If they fill the holes and do a terrible job, then I charge them to fix it.

Its not terrible to ask that of STR - esp. if you are in a market that is more "utilitarian" and they likely arn't around all day; even in vacation rentals they go out and about for chunks of the day. 

So it was a terrible start that I have significant responsibility for the issue.Just as abatement was finishing we entered Covid lockdown and a single contractor at a time working.