I started using AirBNB in lieu of a contracted rate with a "flee-bag" hotel in the loop.  

Brown bag your lunch.  

I spent most of my adult life deployed, living out of a bag in third world sh@tholes.

What will keep you from saying screw it and walking away from a project and leaving me holding the bag?

If you try to convince your wife to let you put branded "We Buy Houses" stickers in the goody bags for you daughter's birthday.

If not what is the market for the highest and best use of that 49% rentable sqft and how fast can it be rented while you're holding the bag.

You could hire 4 people, 2 upstairs throwing trash out the windows, small items could be bagged. 2 people on the ground picking it up and throwing it in a dumpster.

No one is living in the property, if it goes under contract, no one is packing the bags, calling furniture movers, setting up storage arrangements, they aren't out with another agent looking for a place to rent, taking off from work,  they probably won't put a contract on another house, with a down payment and earnest money subject to the closing on their empty house.

Now that the cat is out of the bag, there is an opportunity for growth on both sides.

We are not members of the 'Tea Party' so it's difficult to understand their logic,