Evicting in state of Georgia

[Nicole L Redwine]

So this is a long story... but I wanted to ask people's experience, if anyone has some.

The VERY condensed version is that I am potentially going to purchase a house/property from my uncle.  He owns a house that has a "tenant" -- however, this tenant has NOT paid rent or utilities in 18 years (don't ask -- I don't know why my uncle allowed this to go on).  At this point in my uncle's life, with a VERY ill wife, etc, he does not want to own the property anymore and has offered to finance it for me so I can renovate or build a new house to sell.  

However, I would have to evict the current tenant.  Has anyone ever bought a property with a tenant who needed to be evicted?  

(Just to be clear, he will not and cannot do the eviction himself.)