Without knowing specifics of any contract signed, or more information about the deal, which is sounds like you are purposefully being a little vague on,......it sounds like to me that yes a commission is owed.

This is a topic that is not covered in all the house hacking promotions.

I wrote the above for informational purposes.

This was to purposely cause damage so that he could gain a commission that would help pay his rent. 

I don't want to be held to paying 3% to a buyers broker if the seller doesn't pay it all at closing or at least include it in my closing costs for underwriting purposes.

Then you need to promote it by bigger pockets, email, social media, etc.If you PM me I will get you the contact info of the two people who run the CT groups.

@Michael EalyOk but if I did want to rename a property because it had a bad reputation etc or I wanted to rebrand it for perhaps value add purposes etc how would o do that?

@Joe Krug@Ian Ippolito maintains an independent website for investors (he does not permit members to promote or sell anything) to share their research and experiences with various crowdfunding sponsors and investments. 

Especially for investment purposes. 

The IRS may consider you a FTHB for tax purposes since you haven't personally lived in any of those properties, but I'll defer to a tax pro on that.But, it's all good.