So here is a good example of how culture warps your perception. As everybody knows, New York city landlords are always evil, and tenants are always the good guys. That's the premise upon which the entire system is based. If you rent out your condo, you become the "bad guy".
Google "New York City landlord". The responses clearly show what everyone knows, that landlords are evil and tenants have rights. The entire system is wildly tilted in favor of tenants and against landlords. 
I read a good article a few years ago from the landlords perspective of the effort and costs it took to evict a tenant who had not paid in something like a year, on how the system was tilted against landlords. I can't find it -- because all my results are how landlords are evil.
The musical "RENT" is based on the concept that it's unfair that landlords force tenants to pay rent, that in a just world, landlords would spend lots of money to keep a place maintained and heated while moochers get to stay there for free.
