I would appreciate advice relating to situations such as, if it's more suitable to finish my college education and wait to become more established, go out and start investing now, or if its even possible to do both.

But I could have just as easily gotten burned had the home not been suitable for renting to local military families.

We BOTH began advertising for replacement tenants and I gave them applications to hand out if they found someone they felt might be suitable to replace themselves.Gail

The best way for you to ensure that they leave your property is for them to be able to find another suitable location for them to relocate their business (preferably nearby). 

A detailed line item estimate is mandatory and cut sheets of the materials or samples should be submitted to you as well when you vet the selected contractors so you have confidence that they are using suitable materials suited to the tasks that you will be expecting on the job.

Carpet locally is gonna be about $20-25 per sq yard for durable stuff suitable for a rental, plus installation.

I think in these circumstances such items will be quite suitable to new fashion.

If you make it, I like to have discussions with folks to determine suitability, review their objectives, share some ideas.  

The DST can certainly help save a 1031 Exchange when an investor can not locate suitable replacement property.  

I would recommend listing the property as is and seeing if you can get a suitable price for it.