You should post the basic info about your pool in your "signature". See CarlD and my posts for examples. You don't need it immediately but the info may influence the answer you get to various questions down the road. You can edit your signature as you get more info.

What you will need right away is size in gallons and the following Taylor test results: Free Chlorine (FC); pH; Total Alkalinity (TA); Calcium Hardness (CH) and CYA.If you don't have gallons post the shape, length, width, shallow depth and deep depth. If the shape is irregular give widest and narrowest width and length in addition to depths. Give the current method of chlorinating.

If you can get an opportunity to visit with the current owner and get a "tour" of the equipment, how to work it, etc. even before closing, you'll have a leg up on the process. We were able to do this when we bought our house. It may make the urgency of sizing up the pool lower, especially if there is some automatic system. Maybe your realtor can set it up for you. Most homeowners want to know that the new owner will take care of their "baby".

Not sure how far your move is, but I assumed it's still Houston or thereabouts. "South" pools have some differences from "North" pools.

It's really not that hard. I let the automatic system run for almost 2 years when we bought our first pool house. It was not until after I started having trouble that the pool store couldn't figure out that I found this forum, figured out what was going on and changed to BBB.

Good luck with closing.