I will continue to rent where I am now and this would end up being purely an investment property. 

If he failed to give notice, you can continue charging rent until the 30 days are up or you place a new tenant, whichever is sooner.

Get educated.

If you are trying to protect each property from risk of problems from another property then you need to be sure you are educated about property management and the ways to protect tenants from suing you and attaching other properties. 

I will continue to update this thread or post a new one with this content to document this deal and the progress; thanks all again for your feedback.

Finally since he paid/trying to pay can I continue with the eviction process?

You are already super educated you just need to jump into sounds like.

I currently work In the RAN (Royal Australian Nay) but within the next 2 months i'm going back to my prior AMAZING job (which sadly pays a little less as an outdoor educational instructor) Eventually i'd like to get to a stage where i'm pocketing enough through investment properties that my day job's income doesn't really matter and i can continue working where i love.I have just finished reading the Ultimate Beginner's Guide To Real Estate Investing which has given me plenty of ideas and as you can imagine even more questions.

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Would you continue to press for the re-inspection?