Cancellations for hotel/motel?

Has anyone dealt with a hotel or motel cancelling their booking for some bogus reason like "renovations"? I made a booking for the motel 6 in downtown SD a few months back for a really good price and they called me about a week later saying my booking would be cancelled due to "renovations" at that time. I'm looking online and now the rates are $2600 for those dates. I even called to ask if the motel was under renovation for that date and the response I got was "it's sold out". I know airbnb tactics but I wasn't aware a chain like motel 6 was doing similar shady things . If anyone knows anything about this, is it even worth pursuing this or should I just let it go?