If so, I don't think it would be worth the aggravation to hire an attorney to evict this tenant.

Another mitigant could be that you have hired a general contract with experience and have a full budget ready to present along with as is and as repaired comps based on your plan.If none of this work you could try and joint venture with another rehabber and leverage off of his experience the first deal or two while you are building your track record.  

In other words, how much do you expect to pay when you hire a GC for a full rehab project?

Should I hire a lawyer to help me with the process?

In other words, how much do you expect to pay when you hire a GC for the full rehab project?

At long last....technology is working to reduce those pesky law fees:Artificially Intelligent Lawyer “Ross” Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law FirmUnfortunately most of the pesky legal problems try to navigate areas of the law that have yet to have cases.  

It is the same thing a broker will do when he is trying to hire an experienced agent from another firm.

He didn't even show up to move his stuff, he hired friend of friend to help him loaded his unpack stuffs.

Hiring a property manager to manage them would be a great idea, and building the PM fees into your margin calculations is important.

And of course no newbies have to be very experienced builder.. there is no loan that is more risky than a construction loan for a lender as a builder you know all that can go wrong.I was building in one subdivision and builder came in hired a crappy framing crew and the house ended up 3 inchs off of plumb..