So I am only able to inch the rents up %7 of the current rent, plus inflation (about 3%).

More printing of money = inflation/increase value of property and increase average rents. 

I hope this provides some insight for those impacted by the price inflation.

How much further inflation increases. 

Unless you think they’re going to solve the inflation problem they said didn’t even exist, you want to borrow as much s you can afford.

We're also able to evaluate our rates, and keep pace with inflation, on a monthly and quarterly basis because of shorter term leases.

I’ll make a couple separate posts to keep each thought separate.Higher inflation and higher interest rates.  

Once you've done this you can safely invest (conservatively), even in an inflated market.

I would have thought we would have hit that breaking point at which wholesalers drove themselves out of business by asking for such inflated prices.

But if you have a storage system, and separate your purchases into piles by the month that you purchased it, and hold onto those products for at least one year before donating them, they become long term capital gains items and you can donate them for fair market value, which is the full $1000 plus one years worth of inflation.