We filled in a pool, that had a cement apron and vinyl liner,, we put back in partial clay and sand, it would have been better if we had used all sand.. we would get standing water after large rain storm.. city made us remove all concrete, mechanical, and liner only thing they would allow was small amount of loose chunks of concrete size of basket ball,  other wise it all went. it cost us about 4 grand to fill in the pool.. 

@Andrew Stair , Congratulations! 

We had a cement area in the garage and ceramic tile in entry way that was urine soaked to the point that the urine had actually seeped thru the grout in the tile entry way and soaked the wood subfloor.  

For some, if they have to move out of a house with stairs they don’t want to buy again because they anticipate moving into assisted living in a few years or moving in with their children (my criteria will be house with 1st floor master or ranches) These are all simply my observations and I would value any critique or confirmation.Once I work out some other obligations and figure out where I’m going to land with private school tuition for my son I hope to buy my first project later this year.

Almost looks like some type of cement board product.

Stair carpets (steam-clean where possible)7.

The down stairs seemed to have no power on.

There are even two large holes where it appears somebody poured the cement around the base of trees, which are now long dead.

I thought to myself, "would I want to walk down these narrow stairs in the dark while I'm half asleep to use the bathroom?"

I live 40 miles away, so I called the owner of the biggest plumbing co in the city and he and 2 techs drpped everything to get to the property within 10 minutes of my call.I had put a garage outdoor access remote on the outside of the house.. they couldn't get in thru that because THE POWER WAS NOW OFF.Luckily i had put a coded door knob on the kitchen door that opens to the deck-- i gave them the code and they were inside instantly.The water heater was STILL SPEWING WATER full blast in a stream so strong it was hitting the second story ceiling and hitting the ELECTRICAL PANEL also located in the garage and that's what had knocked out the power .The plumbers immediately turned off the inside water main cutoffand sent me photos of the EMERGENCY SITUATION the pm so calmly let me know about by email an hour earlier.i fired the pm co that instant and got on the phone to start farm (my rental policy ins co) whiledriving an hour to the property.i also called the city's best WATER EMERGENCY REMEDIATION COMpany while en route.When i got there, the water was turned off ( finally)the drywall ceiling had fallen in, the light fixtures destroyed, the garage door open case was HALF FULL OF WATER and there were 1000s of mold blooms on every surface and hundreds of stacks of spiky growing black mold (looked like iron fiilings we used to play with in that game we all had as kids where u use a magnet and drag the iron filings around to put hair and a mustache on the bald guy cartoon photo) the mold spikes were 1.5" tall on the woot railings and stairs going into the house, on all of my beautiful built in wooden garage shelves--- what a mess-- like the streets of Beirut after the bombs went offand I don't have allergies -- but i could not even STAND inside the garage because the WET MOLD MILDEW SMELL was so strong it instantly gagged me and gave me a headache and i couldn't breathe.So here Ewe are on Jan 17 and now i know that the BEST rental dwelling policy dies NOT COVER MOLD REMEDIATION AT ALL ( so far $14,000) but it does cover water damage with a $2500 deductible...