It's hard to evaluate the flip without knowing your numbers but from a glance, I can say your design choices while thoroughly addressing each room should get you multiple offers this week.    

Once again, I’m not a lawyer and if this went to court the magistrates could go either way...But it sounds like they conceded that money to you by their own choice.

If you don't live in a market that doesn't fit your investment goals like you do, you have no choice to go out of state or else not invest in real estate.

Even if you break even, it will probably be the better financial choice.

You’re going to seek out alternative financing and lending.

Think E*Trade but with different paperwork so as to be able to document the individual transactions that occur off-exchange in alternative assets like real estate.  

Other alternatives are offering a cash-for-keys plus returning the full deposit in hope its entices him to leave.Otherwise, hopefully your property is in a landlord friendly state where the eviction process is swift and painless if it leads to that.To your success! 

There is no alternative. 

This sounds like a better alternative than no rent.

Unfortunately, I don't think the property I live in now will pull in enough rental income to cover the mortgage, and on top of that, I'm fairly certain selling the property would actually take money out of my pocket.I do have some time to think about all this, since the company I work for has a travel ban in place right now due to COVID-19, I'm not able to travel to Portland for work yet, but whenever this pandemic ends, this job opportunity and big lifestyle change will be staring me in the face asking for action to be taken.I want to get into real estate investing at some point in my 20's, and I don't want to set myself up for failure by making bad choices with my current situation.