Ohio really sounds like a good place to do something like that.

It will be an extremely risky proposition and likely end up in failure.

Ship it to your cleaner or handy person like @John Underwood mentioned.

As opposed to a brand name insurance company that likely will only have 1 option.

[Sale Price - (Original Purchase Price + Improvements) = Gain] In order to benefit from the $250k exemption, must be primary residence, lived in 2 out of the last 5 years, can use this once every 2 years.Looks like there's no capital gains Tax in Washington.

Long term I'd like to have more in the Poconos due to my familiarity to the area as I grew up there.

This property was severely distressed - nothing like what you posted.  

To Steve's point, if you post on Zillow and agents find out, they will likely rat you out.

What do you like? 

Be prepared to followup numerous times.Highly likely the owner will treat your letter like junk mail.