Reverse engineering from your desired income to today's steps, like calculating the number of properties to purchase each year, is a practical strategy.

Hello everyone,I am a 25 year old civil engineer EIT (engineer-in-training) that focuses on commercial and residential development design.

I have spent the last 25 years as a Mechanical Engineer and have recovered financially. 

I am a structural engineer for my W2 job and it is actually insane how beefed up beach home designs are nowadays.

I'm a software engineer diving into the real estate world, currently working as a software engineer at a real estate company (just a coincidence), in my position as a software engineer I'm doing a lot of cool AI stuff, that gives me the ability to build and create tools for myself to find deals (maybe will share about it later).Currently, I've got one property in Toledo, Ohio, that's currently rented, and I just bought a new one in Cleveland.I'm here to soak up knowledge, connect with folks from all corners of the globe, and share what I can.

I second the suggestion of retaining a geotech engineer.

The best background for folks in this industry is civil engineering, architect, trade specialist and so on.These are two very different skillsets. 

You need much more capital for real estate, as it is a wealth protection and cashflow engine for large sums of money when done right IMO 

@Lance JohnsonYou could reverse engineer the county assessor site API (through inspecting network traffic), then iterate through all possible parcel numbers, storing the results and their data in a database.

My accountant told me there are two ways to get a cost segregation study, one being the expensive route where an engineer comes onsite and does it.