And if you had a mortgage Silas did you benefit from the increase in the value of your property?

From personal experience:

1st Property sold for about 20 times what I bought it for (Note what I bought it for was not what I paid for it)

2nd Property sold for double what I paid for it (In this instance what I paid for it was what I bought it for)

3rd Property now worth three times what I paid for it.

Hey Silas and all this time according to the likes of yourself and michaelr I have been being "squeezed" by haves and shelling out all my money to increase the lot of the rich - Bullshit all the while I have been paying a mortgage I have not been paying rent, all the while I have been paying a mortgage I have been spending my money to ultimately benefit me and my family.