I'm presently a facilities engineer by trade, who does some construction and maintenance for landlords on the side, hoping to get back into the private real estate game.

I used to be an engineer before going full time in real estate a few years ago and those two STRs net me more than my salary was!

My hunch is that's $85K for the garage itself before plans, permits, engineering, sewer line, electrical panel, etc. 

After spending 25 years as a Software Engineering and Product leader, I’m now exploring the world of real estate investing (REI) and looking forward to learning from all of you.My goal is to leverage my current investments and savings to build a real estate portfolio that will eventually allow me to transition away from my current career.

I am currently employed as a project engineer working for a GC that builds multi-family projects.

I find it continues to impact their algorithms as they continue to figure out how to attract hosts and guests and it further proliferates and already saturated market.  

Most of our clients are professionals - physicians, attorneys, software engineers.

I'll have an engineer look it over and stamp off before I move ahead.

Then I would speak with a land surveyor or civil engineer to get a sense of what it would take to obtain all the entitlements and bring in the utilities, etc.     

Next time I'll start with the engineer.