Hey Geomapper04 - I second esshup's comments - your suggestion to use ArcGIS was wonderful. On google maps the last best update on my place was 2002. And google always misses my property by 1/2 mile...

One of the available basemaps on ArcGIS is a Bing Aerial and it is MUCH MUCH clearer and up to date. And the tool got to my place spot on in one try.

Took a little messing around to figure out how to use it - but the quality is way higher than anything I have found on google before.
The measuring tool is intuitive and very convenient for me.

One thing I can't find is how to tell what the dates are on the basemaps - and if there is a timeline of shots (one nice feature in google maps) that I can adjust or inspect.

Thanks for the insight on the tool.