In the numerous inspections that I have done, I have seen many things that sellers have tried to hide that a simple walk-through would have never seen.

You can roll the dice and transfer it anyway, you can hide what you are doing in a land trust, you could refi in the name of the LLC, etc, etc.

It's essentially a video tutorial on how to more effectively deceive and lie and hope you can push your STR through and hide the activity from others- illegally and unethically.

A seller may be creating a speed issue to hide a property condition issue, take note.

But here are a couple of things I have learned, -A full gut remodel is harder to estimate because you never know what is hiding behind the walls and what is required to bring it up to code.

Basically agree with @Scott M.What you could have done is negotiate performance incentives in the contract with them upfront.Typical performance metrics: Ave Rent AmountsRent CollectionsVacancyBe careful with Maintenance as too easy for incentives to tempt PMC to HIDE maintenance issues!

The availability of information in the Internet for consumers does not allow agents to "hide" properties from their buyers.

Wish you would have taken that route.David,The problem is Nat Chan is in Miami and if I assume the agent and property are in Miami, you are basically talking about everyone other agent in that area doing unethical things.It seems they are not even trying to hide or worry for a second their practices.I have at times even call up the listing broker and complained and was given the "uhmm uhmm what's your point?"

My concern would be, if they tried to keep you from seeing that stuff, what else are they hiding?

You can play hide the ping pong ball under the cups, but at the and of the day, you have to come up with more principal sooner.