While this may be a clear lease violation, there is no guarantee that the judge will grant the removal order and give you back possession of the home.You need to weigh the costs.  

Combine the basement with the 1st floor unit and remove the kitchen. 

I wonder how pissed the spirit would get if you went there and removed the doors so he couldn't slam them?

You need to have a mechanism to remove tenants who are a problem, and I would strongly encourage you to consult an attorney the moment you close to get your lease terms right.

They might give them to you before to make sure that you actually perform a physical inspection so that contingency would be removed from the offer.

The tenant has been removed.

, any personal items to be removed/locked up etc? 

But the complaint websites don't allow posts to be removed.

Torres, who works at one of 26 eviction courts in the county, has the job of removing people from their homes when they’ve stopped paying rent.The constable has been busy this year.

DST are a great tool for the common 1031 situations you described, but for very large amounts of equity there are competing STNL MTNL investments, that get me enough removed from the terrible T's, and satisfy my risk concerns, along with having self control of exit and usually better yields.