VRBO has acted reprehensibly through this, but they’ve stopped short of confiscating and refunding payments.This space needs some new players.

While I have never had this specific scenario, typically as the lease is coming to an end, I schedule a walk through with the tenant and have both a checklist as well as the pictures of the condition prior to them leasing the space.  

I'll be talking to realtors, Prop Mgt companies, and people whom I know in the REI space. 

My renters are mostly interested in the space for parking hence its interesting to them.

The reason square footage is a mess is because of how it's calculated and how you use your space. 1,000 square feet of an open floor plan is way more valuable than 1,000 square feet of compartmentalized rooms, but an appraiser will likely call it even.

Hope you have continued success in the space.

Let’s all relax.  

Should I turn this weird hallway space that connected the 2 units into a large closet, or should I turn it into 2 half baths.

Based on my limited interactions with the tenants and seeing their living spaces multiple times I feel confident in two of the three tenants.

As mentioned, while the Corona Virus is the primary news with a lot of unknowns around it, service sector workers will be effected, but I think it will bounce back once people are free to leave their houses, and actually booming for a few weeks after lockdowns are relaxed.