That estimate sounds about right, if not longer, especially if/when they operate the rest of the year with limited capacity even after they open.

Add a contingency with the rights to assign contract to my spouse in the unlikelihood of death or decline in my health/mental capacity.

Everyone agent and broker these days seems to claim they are investor friendly but if they aren't personally doing deals in some capacity I wouldn't go for that. 

@Nathaniel J MottIt started due to the pandemic and the fact that suppliers aren’t running at full capacity coupled with the high demand.

Determine your financing capacity. 

One I found a phone number via Google search  What way have you found best to try and contact the owner and in what capacity —-  Via formal letter, with letter head, company name etc?

I myself invest OOS, but only because I have capacity to still make regular visits and check that things I paid for are actually done.

Now the Academy is eyeing a ceremony on April 25, and loosening-but-still-not-all-that-loose state restrictions will allow for some kind of low-capacity, in-person gathering.

I think the solution for CDC overreach is to allow evictions in states that don't have mask mandates or limits on business capacity or such.The idea of not allowing evictions (note that I did not say the CDC moratorium) came at a time when eviction was seen as a major vector for spreading the disease.

Long story short, they are likely to not want to spend the money to try that - especially when they are questioning the mental capacity of the seller, and given 14 days of additional time your contract would expire and you could request your escrow back.