Our initial thoughts was to update some of the property to have more amenities to add to the guest experience and to offer it as a wedding venue.

That banker in the little corner office in your home town branch may be on a career path that parallels your growing real estate business and the relationship may turn out to be a valuable asset far into the future.On the other hand I think if people know what you do for a living and know that you “work with your hands” as they say, and you appear in a suit and tie and it's not a wedding or a funeral, they're going to think you are overdoing it.

I live in Orlando and some of the images have been heart wrenching to see.  

When going on Google, the image of their business location is a red-tagged building, likely uninhabitable. 

What can you tell me from lookng at the images?

For example, once we had the iron go bad for one of our guests who were there for the wedding.

I am around wedding venues, wineries, hiking trails, mountains, etc.

I am preparing to crowdfund to get public attention to this type of scam and want to share all the stories and images to get the story published.

Google "energy conservation kits" and click on images to have a look at what is out there!

If they've only been there for about a year and the place already looks like this (pretty bad from what you describe), imaging another year?