Those non-cash expenses definitely helped us out during tax season.2.

In my experience that's not actually the case at least in legitimate evictions for non-payment of rent or breach of another part of the lease.  

The problem is that we start seeing public push-back from the DNS (Department of Neighborhood Services, they issue fines) and the press: it gives landlords a bad rep - the newspaper does not differentiate between OOS and local.

This is virtually non-existent with SFH's but is commonplace with 2+ units.

I've got a long term tenant lined up & the unit is a non smoking unit, which the applicant is aware & fine with for indoor.

For example, when I was in my large public accounting firm days, I worked on a tax return for a client who had $500m+ net revenue over hundreds/thousands of locations across 25+ states.

If you made those free they'd be complaining about jobs or supermarket deserts or lack of public transportation or some other issue.

Not just a non licensed investor. 

Also many other Counties in non-covered States also include it. 

Took my friend/fellow CNY investor 6-9 months to get a non-paying tenant out.