Your reviews, especially when starting, are everything, and the worst reviews come from bad cleanings and things not disclosed in the listing that should be.You are making the right moves with a designer as long as they have experience in your particular area. 

One of the questions you'll be asked in the application process is something to the effect of "do you have any debts that are not disclosed in this application?"

While there is always a chance they are not disclosing things, i.e. doing the maintenance work themselves and not booking it, the more likely scenario, at least in my case, is nothing needed repaired that year at that property. 

So, your agent did not due diligence or was in on it, but the listing agent should have disclosed these with the listing.

Would I need to disclose this when listing the home even though it was several years ago and all repairs have been made? 

You might even call some of your competitors and strike up conversations about how you generically want to open a bed and breakfast elsewhere and see if you can get them to disclose their occupancy percentage or any other valuable data.

See what they say.A wonderful thing about real estate law is sellers must disclose known defects in the property.

If you find proof that a plumber flagged this as a bigger issue, you could have a case that the seller was aware but didn't disclose it.Best of luck! 

When you pop into a forum you know nothing about and post an AI-generated post without disclosing that, you're implying that you know the subject matter.

My bigger concern would be around your disclosures to your lenders… usually you have to disclose your financial situation to your lender and if you have this huge outstanding obligation it would seem like somewhere you would be obligated to disclose this to them.