At least I know it's sitting on their credit report and preventing them from harming someone else.

This is habitable space, not a closet. 

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

Hey Fisher,Yes, you can live in your garage and rent out rooms in your house, provided that the garage is properly converted into a habitable living space according to local building codes and regulations.

If they harmed the property with actual damage I would immediately demand payment, send to collections, and file a lawsuit in SC court.  

the I-75 corridor including Ocala, Brooksville, Spring Hill, Lakeland, The Villages (yes, and everything around them) are all experiencing incredible growth as incoming folks are looking for good priced properties out of harms way for natural disasters. 

In a lot of ways i still feel 18 and i still have so much maturing to do, however i do feel mature in many aspects, i have a stable career, i pay all my bills, i have a car bill but it will be paid off ASAP (less then 300 a month) and no bad habits/addictions.

Hi Yael,If you are willing to pay, no harm in getting it reviewed by a lawyer.

To overcome this, I believe it's all a matter of changing our habits and committing to living a better and healthier lifestyle.

There needs to be mechanisms to be able update a property and raise its rent to market that isn’t overly harmful to tenants or landlords, and then you’d have a good functioning market.