Here's a good start: NY Tenant RightsYou should know the law and review it regularly to keep up with changes, particularly in a liberal state like NY that is regularly changing.

I think a lot of people are simply not equipped to think of themselves as anything other than a success in life, and anything that challenges that assumption or the external appearance of it is to be avoided at all cost.In the end, this is what vanity does to people, it turns them into fragile things unable to grapple with the crippling fear of being revealed to the world but also to themselves as less than perfect, as most definitely NOT good enough, as "losers" and "failures" and "second-raters" and all the words the most vain among us use for those they think they're a million times better than.Being able to laugh at yourself and your pretensions is a gift and a great liberation of the spirit.

With the new rules the liberals put in place it's virtually impossible to get tenants out in Ontario.

Massachusetts is a liberal state and I am sure they have tough laws.

Yes, the tuition about killed me but since he got a full scholarship an expensive liberal arts college (University of Richmond) it was worth it in the end.

I actually hold a mix of conservative and liberal views on different subjects...

I haven't done fiance, but I wouldn't anticipate it being an issue (provided the fiance owns the house, it doesn't work if you are living rent free with a renter), I'd just be sure to broker it to a more liberal lender.

However I have this itch to invest in my first property to get started on my path to financial freedom and eventually liberate me from my 9-5. 

I'm also pretty liberal with pricing. 

In the Bay Area, listing agents are pretty liberal with handing these out, especially if there's a possibility of double ending it in the agent's head....