If the discussion is more relevant elsewhere, then why do you keep mentioning it? You brought the matter up, not me.
I bought the place I tending to move back "home" when I left the army, but ended up ultimately moving in with Mrs D mark 1. I was going to sell,but was approached by the daughter of a friend of my dad's wanting to rent it for his daughter, and there she remained to this day. I don't need the money these days, with 5 separate and significant income streams between myself and Mrs D, and I still rent out to the same lady for the same £300 a month that I did 3 decades ago. She'd be paying 2.5 times that at least anywhere else on the island, if she could find anywhere at all. Indeed, shes not paying anything at the moment as I volunteered her a 3 month payment break while C19 was kicking off and she can't work.
My main motivation is simply hanging on to the place for when Mrs D joins me in retirement and having someone in it that I can trust who'll keep it in good order until that time. In recent years I've paid for all new external windows and doors and a re-slating of the roof, which is about 4.5 years rental income blown on that alone, so I'm not exactly being chauffeur driven in a Bentley while I light cigars with £50 notes off the back of it. I didn't purchase it as a buy to let profit making exercise. I ended up with it surplus through happenstance, and the profit you seem to think I'm revelling in does little more than attend to the physical upkeep of the property.
The lesson there is don't judge everyone by your own low standards.
And that brings it full circle back to topic. The main benefit for me is that I'm not spending my own pension, commutation or injury award maintaining the place. I can spend that money instead on being chauffeur driven in a Bentley and lighting cigars with fifties...