Every city in the country allows Daycares and other home based business but they are excluding short term rentals? 

If you go to a country type area with a larger concentration of mobile homes by a larger city you'll find a mobile home parts store.

You in India have the Cyclones and Monsoon rains on the East coast of the country with tremendous flooding in Bangladesh.

Properties are more expensive, but I think in the long run, the revival of the Sparrows Point area as a hub for jobs will bode well for investments in the eastern Baltimore County housing stock.

That was probably a decade ago.Since then, the biggest impediments to the uptake of peer-2-peer lending and crowdfunding in this country has been the requirement that all investors be accredited.There are additional hurdles (unless they have found a way to address it) with crowdfunding real estate purchase.

It's the largest cross city investment relationship in the country from what I was told.

I would not have hired an accountant outside of the country to do your taxes.Furthermore - a 1031 can add some complexity to a return.If you decide not to use the current accountant - you should at the very least ask an accountant to review your work product.Regardless if a written contract was in place or not - he did the work and you should not stiff him for the time that he spent unless you can point out that he is grossly incorrect with the return that he prepared.

So unless you're ready to do a remote rehab rehab cross country to try and salvage the deal, then is not for the faint of heart and should be left to those with eons of experience in the industry.   

I have a website that my tenants can pay via PayPal but I’m in a rural part of the country and still get a lot of cash tenants and/or face to face deliver their checks.

I am a US (Greatest country in the world) investor.