You're not obligated to spend it.

Traveling nurses and other professionals search this area often with the considerable amount of hospitals, medical facilities and corporations in the surrounding cities. 

Also, they might assume that you will do your best to pay them back even if there is no money left in the deal and you don't have any legal obligation to do so (and hopefully you're the kind of person who will if push comes to shove).3.

By going directly to the seller after the original deal fell through, you may still be obligated to pay the commission to the agent.

I'm hoping to leave the corporate world as soon as possible to pursue building my dream. 

I really don't know, but it is definitely not just deals taking longer then expected to close at this point.He could just own it and admit he had not met his obligations to his investors and try to make it right but instead he is trying to keep people from finding out how he operates so he can bring in new unsuspecting investors to keep the machine going.

It's great that you have residency in Mexico and that you have a Mexican corporation.

If it were me, I would make the argument that the agent has not fulfilled their obligation to bring a buyer for the property and is therefore not entitled to a commission.

Unless you have reason to believe that the unit was used as a meth lab, you have no obligation to have it tested. 

You say that this is your first step into real estate and you're choosing a path that is a 24/7 obligation.