Raising the rent to market rate is not discrimination.

As raising rents often comes with an increased vacancy exposure risk with renewals, it may not always be the best strategy.

Finally they started pressuring me to buy $5-10M properties that I didn’t have the money for and they started trying to get me to buy their other program for another $8000 to learn how to raise money through partnerships and I was just done.

There will always be people who want to rent by one but I wouldn't count on one raising property values - I would in-fact assume the opposite.

Maybe also consider if they are "good people" that work in the community and just want a safe place to raise their family. 

as born and raised in CA  and back in the 60s those born in CA were still kind of rare as so many people were moving in from other states..

Last year January MN enacted the biggest # of changes all were added details and raised the bar of requirement for Landlords, including some specifically detailing how a listing must be detailed.

This destroys the credit of the original owner who can then sue the subto buyer.Another issue is if the subto seller claims they were taken advantage of by the subto buyer at a vulnerable time (pre-foreclosure) and an attorney or regulator raises the question of equity skimming.

I'm born and raised in Iowa (actually a suburb of Des Moines), I now live 2 hours away in Cedar Rapids, because I like this market better.  

This motivation lead me and a business partner to start Raise the Standard Property Management.