If there is specific information you know about the tenant i.e. if they just had a surgery, have kids in college, just bought a car etc.... you should add that to the letter to make it personal.  

Anyway, they called to say the parents have needed surgery etc (everyone has a heart bleed story right?!)

first thing i would do is put "motivated seller" in the MLS ticket. second is lower the price if you are that motivated.try it, but i dont think the incentive will help.... remember that most agents just finished high school and some have a political science college degree (worthless), so they can't think outside of a plastic bag.

Plastic, galvanized, copper, Quest (HOPE NOT), other?

That I can tell you.Additionally, several factories continue to use cheap plastic hoses for plumbing lines instead of copper and the cheapest turn stops, fixtures, fittings, commodes, sinks, appliances, formica countertops, plastic wrap around shower enclosures, and on and on.

I asked the broker and he recommended 24x30 aluminum, but those seem very expensive and i just want to make sure im not going overboard on this from the start, because there is a house in my neighborhood that is for sale, so i walked down and looked at the sign and it was just the corrugated plastic with metal eyelets at the top in the holes... 

Call on those 1 x 2 white plastic signs that the Wholesalers are leaving illegally on every street corner in the traffic areas of our hot as Hades Hillsborough County.

Insurance companies and hospitals, even some doctors, go out of their way to make bills confusing and it's been estimated that, on average 25-30% of hospital bills have errors.Although it never gotten reported to a collection agency, I received the first bill for a procedure I had done, THREE years after the outpatient surgery for it. 

(Sorry for the delayed response, wife had surgery a couple weeks ago and life has been crazy)

They did complete dry out and sanitized the area .They covered the area with plastic with zipper access.