I'm just checking to see if anyone has any great advice or strategies on buying investment properties during these weird times with the Coronavirus and society as we know it being uncertain?

Land gives you multiple exit strategies with no improvements (and I would encourage you to avoid doing improvements).

Pending sales growth is the first sign of recovery, so the strong gains in May pending home sales throughout the MSA is encouraging.

I appreciate the encouragement. 

But I do think like you have leverage here by having the Memorandum of Agreement recorded.I would kindly encourage her to compensate you for the earnest money, your time and the probate attorney fees.

From the responses to this thread already, it seems that there are still great opportunities for me to house hack in SD, which is really encouraging. 

I would encourage you to cut your losses and use this as a painful lesson learned.

Certainly, we can all agree that every segment of society has a few bad actors.However, in your post, you set out haranguing other landlords (that posted above, as you state) for some perceived wide-ranging ill that there does not appear to be any evidence for, at least on this thread.To baselessly condemn the entire profession without that merit, to me, does indeed reinforce a false narrative.If I were to muse publicly, as you did, that since a few individuals belonging to an industry (or ethnicity) did wrong, paint them all with a broad unilateral brush and declare “and people wonder why (that group) have a bad name”, I’ll bet you’d use a harsher term than “false narrative” to describe that sentiment.Landlords have a very unfair negative public image because of a very small percentage of individuals in the industry, and you are not helping.

My encouragement is to listen to some of the podcasts and learn how others started out.

Thank you for your encouragement for my first post:) I really like your second point.