What we do, ultimately, is financial engineering, and it doesn't happen in a vacuum - it happens in response to the current and anticipated future environment.  

You’ll need to engage the services of a structural engineer.

Generally speaking, it still takes at least 3-6 weeks to turn around a permit, 4-8 weeks to get engineered drawings, and construction can be months out because we're still suffering from building contractor and trade shortages as contractors are booked out rebuilding from all the wildfires over the last 6 years.

My day job is a software engineer by the way.

I'm also a software engineer looking to find a way to start a passive income stream.

Hello everyone, my situation is as follows:I'm moving to Texas for my job after graduating college and the job I landed as an engineer will be paying 80k/year + some bonuses, which is pretty solid for a first job. 

Once you close the liquidity gap, the cash value of the policy will turn into a liquidity rocket engine. 

This is not just an opinion, you (and should) search your favorite search engine to verify which areas will be more favorable to your goals... 

I started following tons of people in the real estate space and training the algorithm to show me more real estate content.

That part of the country is certainly very beautiful and close enough to large cities to have a vibrant economic engine.