My husband hunts on the property, lots of wildlife - deer, bear, turkey etc. 

That means they could be off by several hundred thousand in my market, which does more harm than good in my experience. 

Taking out a car loan will do more harm than good at this point & it's simply not needed.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

Many investors are scared to get into them as college kids can potentially be harmful to a property.

The free and clear property is out of harm's way. 

@Timothy Eaton Starting off your business by breaking your word to a business partner may harm you more in the long run than honoring your word and making less.

While you'll get only part of the sales that have taken place, you'll still get a certain amount of data, which could appear to be useful at first glance.However, when seriously thinking about it, I can't see how it'd be useful and I'm even thinking it could potentially be harmful.

No harm at all, and I can totally respect that.If there's no instructions, and I'm placing a bid I expect them to fully see it.

I was going to offer to have the testing done but tell the tenant that if the results show no harmful mold, the cost would come out of her security deposit.