When you're talking about a >10 year period here you're talking about a fundamentally different landscape as far as property prices and rent. You can't just say "my tenants didn't take advantage of this opportunity". A lot of people these days, with rent and property prices as high as they are and stagnated wages, fundamentally can't do the same thing that you did. I'm sure what you did was hard. But for most people it's impossible now because the math just isn't the same. And when you raise rent the way that you do you're part of the problem. I'm not knocking your achievement. But you do seem willfully oblivious to the way this affects people who rent - who already tend to have lower incomes and are additionally priced out of purchasing a home.