If. once you change jobs as so many of us do relatively frequently these days, you move that to a self-directed IRA or 401(K) where you have broader investment choices such as real estate and private lending, then you have a path to actually grow that tax-sheltered savings to a meaningful amount and take advantage of the compounding benefits such plans provide.

And I also use a tile leveling system to ensure no lippage.I don't trust self leveling compounds.

Do some flips and compound the cash. 

Account Closed  the post were the investor lost the 100k was in PHX  so my point was to lose 100k in a landlord dispute you probably got your back bowed up  LOL... not being in the rental business I would not know about Seattle.. but most that follow the laws don't have to many issue from what I see.

Hurricane Harvey has further compounded this problem as rates have skyrocketed.3)  Agent - young, hungry, willing to write a lot of offers.Let's get started!

As long as the foundation walls are in plane with the house walls atop of them - not twisted, heaved, tilted or bowed - and are not crumbling apart, things should not be too scary.  

I have been working on an Excel sheet that would take these figures and let me look at them in more of a 'compounding way'.

These qualities help meet required minimum distribution requirements (if applicable) and create the opportunity for compounding returns by reinvesting cash flow distributions in the park.  

A type of "neighborhood interest" that compounds, snowballs somewhere along the journey https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/2997/blog_posts/28149-a-landlords-role-in-the-journey-to-community-revitalization and in both of my experiences in two different neighborhoods in 18 years, leads to larger profits.The third camp may be somewhere between our two views.

The rate of return is a compounding return factor, yes, INFINATE returns on certain scales of volume and reinvestment.