Please don't post what you "believe" - this is how incorrect information gets perpetuated.  

However, I will share this post with my lawyer as additional evidence of your perpetual lies and fraud...Lastly, that counterclaim is ridiculous.For reasons that are beyond obvious to everyone but you and your lawyer - monies are owed.

However, since they are often unoccupied with an occasional 1 or 2 people staying there for a night, I think they pretty much stay below the radar, especially if the tenants behave themselves (park in designated areas, keep their commuter car in decent running condition, keep the noise down, behave courteously to the neighbors, etc.).Remember (I really hate to pass judgement or perpetuate stereotypes) your typical crashpad tenant is going to be a professional aircrew member that has been screened by their company for certain standards of character, reliability, ethical behavior, and so on.

Here we would think letting a faucet drip is lunacy because we live in a perpetual drought!  

You are also reinforcing the stereotype that some tenants have of landlords, which is "as long as I pay rent, they will not bother me, because all that they want is the money."

You are moving to a relatively high and stereotypically-hostile-to-landlords place and it would be a lighter and easier thing to own rental properties in markets that are less expensive and less-landlord-hostile.To that end I'd recommend picking up a copy of Long Distance Real Estate Investing and digging in!

Let's say you plan for $200 cash flow but you plan to raise rents 3%-5% each year in perpetuity, then I think you've answered your own question particularly since you say you're not looking for profits but instead plan to hold for the long-term.When I look at deals in expensive markets, I look at three other areas in addition to cash flow:1) Principal pay down - my tenant is paying my PITI each month for me.

Numbers have to work even better than a house due to HOA being in perpetuity. 

Long Island & Westchester, in my opinion, will be the perpetual go-to suburbs for NYC.

Inflation is supposed to be baked in, hence the 4% rule of safe/perpetual withdrawals.