If you want to send a shot across this service person's bow so to speak you may want to contact his commander when he returns from deployment.  

I am not a handyman / contractor but If you think about how plaster is installed (lath, mesh, plaster compound); one of those failed. 

This is compounded by, for example, the fact that COVID demonstrated that we *can* work remotely, causing many commercial businesses to rethink their real estate needs. 

So, I buy on an A or B+ area and hope it trends to stay that way or move up in class rank, then sit back and let time and compounding work it’s magic.Overall, I’m a conservative investor and want to get as passive as possible, so I buy and hold in Class A and B+ areas.

Inflation is 8% and is compounding and he is getting 5% fixed…he will be losing considerable2.

If I got it, then the erosion in purchasing power (the inflation tax) has been compounded by the decline in average per capita income over the past few years.

He did a 2-minute blip on how all investing decisions are compounding that was simply oustanding.

The number of properties was used only to make a point of the impact of not paying off the properties yourself, and what it can be done using a compounding effect.Instead of buying the same property over and over, you can take the accumulated cash flow (growing at each step), and move up into larger properties, or commercial, or just more expensive but with the same cash flow returns. 

Additionally, the bond pays a coupon payment every month with that money automatically being reinvested in to the same fund, so we are instantly receiving compounding interest.

You probably wont fully retire in the sense of never working again, but perhaps just become full time investors.What you should think aboht is the compounding finances.