Compass San Diego team lead holding California DRE # 01256537, Founder of the Compass Military Division, member of the Compass Sports & Entertainment Division, and Cornell University Hotel Real Estate Investments and Asset Management certified (2019). A twenty-three-year U.S. Navy career as an Aviation Electrician’s Mate Senior Chief — including multiple carrier deployments and post-service work as a Lead Field Engineer for General Atomics on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle deployment teams in Iraq and Afghanistan — sets the discretion protocols the team applies to pro-league athletes, active-duty officers, and entertainment clients whose listings run with drone video packages and editorial exterior shoots from David Hartig, Photographer. VA loan workflow covers entitlement restoration, funding-fee exemption filings for disabled veterans, and Certificate of Eligibility recovery on repeat VA-backed purchases. Team coverage spans Mission Hills, Hillcrest, North Park, Normal Heights, La Jolla, Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, and downtown San Diego across single-family, condo, mid-century, and modern-architecture categories. High-net-worth clients running capital-gains planning on multi-million-dollar primary residences bring wealth-management advisors at Mission Hills Financial Advisory LLC into the closing calendar for Section 121 exclusion analysis. The most complex files are Compass Sports & Entertainment relocations where an in-season client needs a purchase, a short-term lease, fine-art transport, and automobile shipping coordination all timed to a roster transaction date.