As a long time local government official responsible for processing and making staff recommendations on this type of zoning variation requests, here are some recommendations that should improve your chances in achieving your desired end goal:1.

Seems like the agent may be more concerned with getting a larger commission than giving you a fair price and a chance to show your perspective with the seller.

Yes I could instead spend my investment money on a half-million dollar home and luxury cars but instead I choose to invest and take chances to set my family and I up in the future.

Its estimated that this addition will bring more than 600 jobs to Tucson over the next 5 years!

Do you think we have any chance to get our damage deposit back and not be penalized for leaving early? 

At the same time, I know that many people under estimate the difficulty of long distance investing, especially as beginning investors. 

Unless there was something verifiably wrong with the tree AND you reported that fact to the neighbor and the local authorities, chances are the tree is YOUR problem, and not the neighbor’s.  

In order to decrease the chances of getting into a bad HOA community.

I will base my ARV on this estimate.  

I would talk to the city and see what they can do, they may repossess the property as it is a danger to surrounding buildings and the public, they may even sell it for cheap to an investor, because if it is abandoned chances are that nobody is paying the property taxes either.