Great platform to network and learn.

In Cozy’s defense, and I don’t even utilize their services, this could happen on any payment platform as the reversal wasn’t done by the platform itself but by the tenants financial institution.

To me this is another form of revenue stream and it’s absolutely congruent with the theme of the BiggerPockets platform.

For specific investor relations platform we use IMS. it's expensive but effective. 

@Keith Meyer Investing with an asset manager or "sponsor" can be done either privately through a firm like mine or on a crowdfunding platform like RealtyShares and Fundrise. 

Would I have any tax consequences if I pulled cash out and invested in R.E. crowdfunding platforms until I decided to add to my portfolio?

Besides Airbnb what other platforms hav you all had success with.

From reading the above I'm guessing that you are nonaccredited (but if not, let me know).In addition to finding syndications that happen to be in your local area, you can also invest in crowdfunding platforms, which are essentially syndications that market nationally and over the Internet.

According to law changes in 2015 in Rhode Island, if a property is rented out for less than 30 days and the owner used a "hosting platform" to book the rental, the responsibility is on the hosting platform to collect an remit any sales and hotel taxes. 

I get that Crowdstreet (and other platforms) are just giving exposure to private sponsors through a more visible platform.