Escape from New Yorkâ¦while you still can! May 6, 2013 You work hard. You pay your taxes. You want to live the American dream. Property and school taxes are choking you. Costs are skyrocketing, You see your dream slipping away. In order to maintain some quality of life, you sacrifice some privacy and put an apartment in your home. Maybe you want to invest, in what was, a safe way to have a long term gain – an investment property. But your rights are slipping away in the dead of night. Currently there is a bill kicking around in the state Senate that says it is not up to you to protect your investment. It is up to them to decide who you must rent to. Read the bill here.