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Good point to disavow the domain.  I've also seen sites fail at reconsideration because their disavow file was improperly formatted.  Be sure you're using a .txt file. I'm of two minds about the popular idea of getting links from as many sources as possible.  I think the thought process behind this came from a while back when WMT really only showed a small sample of your links.  But, since WMT added the ability to download your links, the numbers have been much more inclusive.  A few months ago John Mueller said in a webmaster forum thread (damned if I can't find it now) that in most cases it is ok to just use the links from WMT. Lately, in some cases, when you fail at reconsideration you get an email from Google with a couple of sample links that they want to see removed.  In every case where I have seen this the links are ones that are present on the WMT list. What I have seen though is that if you spend a couple of months working on your request and then file for reconsideration, Google will often reject the request and show you as an example, new links that WMT has picked up.  So, when I do my requests, I always go back and get the latest links and assess those as well. I personally don't think that Google wants webmasters to have to pay for subscriptions to external tools in order to clean up their links. I used to use a combo of ahrefs and WMT links and have always done well.  For my current projects I am using just WMT.  My theory is that they will do just fine, but we'll see!

It is something we have considered, but it is a very good source of income. Obviously this only when it is ranking. It has a whole lot of history (granted this is why it is not ranking) and the domain is our brand as well. Basically we would rather keep it if we can. Kindly thanking you for your advice Matt.