I've been in the RE biz full time for two decades myself.I get why you could view what he said that way and he did go into some other things that weren't directly in the scope of your exact project you're currently working on but he was comparing it to other experiences that did ultimately relate to your original question. 

Master that and you will be decades ahead of other people.As for a non exclusive agreement. 

End of story.I do not have any doubt that your insurance clients had losses, but their specific properties in their specific situations do not affect my property.As far as your decades of family calcualtions, more power to you. everyone should have some type of calcualtions to consider an investment.

Someone starting retirement in 2000 using the 4%-Rule would have run out of money before the decade was out.

Imagine how many decades of $100 or $200/month cashflow it would take to make the $250k you made in 5 years.

Austin has been one of the fastest growing cities in the country over the last decade.

I was buying a crack house and had a "Contamination Specialist" certified by the state (who use to work in their department doing asbestos inspections) tell me that " if you worked in ship building or mining for decades, you could have a problem with your health.

It will grow your wealth over decades.  

I have been studying for almost 2 Decades and still learn something new.4).

His comment was that if you worked in a shipyard or an asbestos mine for decades, you probably have a medical problem.Assuming you aren't a miner, or a ship builder and want to proceed, you start by spraying the ceiling with water and keeping the material wet and scraping the ceiling with a flat shovel which removes the popcorn.