Luckily For you a lot of people are sitting around with nothing to do so maybe they won’t be mad as usually I would say you are just wasting everybody’s time.

If all a person does in a desktop review is just look at what's sold then you're going to get screwed.Exteror Only- Complete waste of timeExterior & Interior- This is what should be done.

This is for properties that have had some history of either contamination, or had business as tenants that were generators of hazardous waste.

Downsizing is for sure a good thing for us as the big house is just a bunch of wasted space for us and our lives have shifted to where we don't get to enjoy our park-like 20 acres like we used to. 

Just be up front and get it done with a minimization to his inconvenience. 

WE've changed up things a bit to minimize all contact.   

As for the buy now or wait, as @Adam Tafel mentioned, the harm in waiting is you continue to pay rent currently, which is money out the door (meaning minimal in the grand scheme of things). 

Hopefully, we can treat each other like human beings and work through this with minimal trauma.

A lot of sellers will be wasting your time, are not really interested to sell, have absurd ideas about price etc.

Better an amicable split (with you, if not between them), so you can get in, verify no damages to give them deposit, then to have them hang on for months and not pay (and maybe do more damage).There are people still looking for housing and ways to show/sign leases with minimal risk, so better empty and rent it out again than months of known no pay.