You could also do a similar exercise with higher mortgages (3 properties for example). 

Let them deal with it.This is part of the solution but if I exercise it without a bit of pre-work,  leaves me with an abandon home on my property and with Covid slow courts it may take months to extinguish her rights under the lease and then go through the abandonment process for the home to get title so we can get a permit to haul it off to the dump. 

Once you have the money and ready to exercise your option to purchase first try to talk to seller to see if they would be open to owner finance it for you with that 20 percent down since you will have shown them that you are a responsible renter.

I will certainly exercise a few of those methods and continue to stay patient. 

Don't do with your money, do for another investor, so your not out cash.You have already done the above in your Masters Bus Ldrshp as an exercise.  

;-)I'm not sure how a property can get stolen, apart from somebody exercising squatting rights in case it's occupied because you haven't checked it out for many years.

Within a given timeframe specified in the contract you can exercise your contingencies in order to be let out of the contract .

Hard to do if you consume as a "multitask", e.g. while traveling or exercising, but seriously valuable suggestion!

I will be gone for a lot of the year on various exercises and possibly deployments so the main usage will be on them.

Instead I've focused on military training exercises, and courses and ive been deployed on 2 domestic ops.