Readers should seek professional advice.

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Looks like a young group of professionals with not enough experience, navigating through various market cycles to produce an accurate  business case.  

You better buy a great place, furnish it well, and take good photographs, not to mention iterate it with professionalism.

Haven't any of the financial professionals noticed that something was wrong?

- Run a cost segregation study on this property in 2024 and you might have $100k on line 18...Without diving too deep on this post - If you run this scenario as a real estate professional while materially participating in the property, You'll be able to reduce your's and your spouses taxable income that year... 

Again, large commitment of time, patience, and ability needed.The amateur of “semi pro” investor should realize that the professional investors (such as myself) spend ALL DAY EVERY DAY doing the above.  

A good host knows the local festival dates and has a handyman and multiple cleaners on call and ready to goa very clean house and quick turnaround are vital Im listed as a co-host but I pay a local host to do the legwork 

My two cents is that the non-live broadcast is a commonly used marketing tool If it was "live" when it was first broadcast, then it is not a "scam" in my opinion but a rebroadcast that does not disclose that fact (not as professional as it could be).

Someone paid to run the prints, and it turned out that the individual in question was not whom he claimed to be; he was an unsuccessful professional actor; his experience was completely fabricated, and the “deals” that made up his “track record” were someone else’s.