Not sure if this will be of any help but here is an aerial of the property (the pool is pictured in the bottom left):Thoughts?

If it has some normal damage ( nail or screw holes from hanging pictures) it can easily be repaired.

Mainly I was trying to get a full picture from those with experience to make sure I was on the right track.

We have a 2 flat with a crawl space and when I sent our plumber down there to repair a sewer issue he sent me pictures of 15-25 rat burrows under this building and he saw them all retreat into the burrows when they shined light on it. 

Take pictures.

I hope you took good before pictures because this could get messy.

Not so much technical REI stuff, as I think it's fair to say that I play this game today on a much higher level than he did, but the big picture stuff."

Just Do EVERYTHING you can and then more from the start.If you do what everyone is doing  (backlinks, citations, keyword yada yada yada... it will be a LOT harder to rank, because .. yup, everyone is doing that.I ranked in about 4 months because I came up with my own unique strategies.Ohh poop, you know what.. let me just do this:From Google Analytics:The picture above shows my online history.

I took notes and pictures.- I re-worked my numbers after having seen the properties in person- I just finished making offers on 4 of them... and I'll be lucky if any of them are accepted.

Tell her you saw on her Facebook page pictures including several dogs.