You need Ground and Home in your entire geographic area before 2021. Don't buy anything that isn't overlapped already. I'd make the seller work out the swap with his Ground counterpart then discuss a price after seeing the new (lower) revenue generation.
The 2021 deadline is only for current isp contracts. They won't even sit down with you for your first isp negotiation if your not 100% overlapped
Southwest and IWBF are 100% correct. In addition you have ask yourself just how long is this rickety transportation system going to hold up. I think that all it's going to take is a couple of nationwide peak season failures in succession for it to cave in on itself. Rest assured X corporate will not put up with irate shippers, bad publicity, angry hedge fund managers, public embarrassment etc for long before they do whatever is necessary to correct the situation and the fact that you have money tied up in the venture will not in any way impact their decision regarding whatever corrective measures they decide to. take. It never has and it never will. Wishing you the best but be sure to mark your trail so you can find your way back out of the woods.
