Although I am relatively new to REI myself (looking for my third deal now) I am more than happy to try to answer any questions you may have and get you in touch with some of the people (realtors, lawyers, flooring guys, etc.) that I have met along the way.  

Still have expenses, but no income (hope you have reserves for a lawyer)3.

Is this where you would need a lawyer to start the process of getting them out through a court order?

Unfortunately, I don't think it's realistic that you will find a generic commercial lease online that checks all the compliance boxes for your state, city, and county.There are limited service property managers that will do retail tenant placement (rather than full property management, which it seems like would be overkill for this one commercial unit you manage), and this would be included as part of that basket of services.You could also hire a lawyer, but I think that property management company will be more cost effective. 

You must be a lawyer and the most you can charge then is 25%, not to be more than $1,000.

And my landlord threatened a countersuit as well...my uncle lawyer told me it was nothing but a scare tactic, and any reasonable judge would throw something like that out without question. 

I thought I needed a lawyer for some property issues but after one consultation ($85), it turned out I didn't and the info from them saved me a few thousand dollars. 

While I'm not a lawyer and I would always encourage you to speak to one I believe you can 1031 homes but I would say it's much more powerful as you scale with commercial.

If I ask different lawyers, I'll get different answers.

I'm not a lawyer though.