In one such case from Texas, the jury held sellers liable for failing to disclose the existence of foundation defects revealed in a prior prospective buyer's engineering report, where the prospective buyer terminated the earnest money contract based on the report.”

The problem is that sometimes when I use the engine from realtor.com to verify crime areas, sometimes it is very red, and scary.

I am a few weeks in to my 2nd year as a civil engineering major at CSU Chico.

Maybe you can bring an engineer or architect with you to have another viewing of the unit before submitting an offer?   

I am a FT Domestic Engineer (aka holding down the mothership with 3 small children). 

Assuming you are in a major city where it's expensive and assuming you have your construction/architect/re/engineer team and know your construction and real estate inside and out trying to do a small flip in under a year (not buy hold) do you think your better off in the stock market?

I have a BS and MS in Engineering and I design Class III medical devices for a living.   

I did flight test engineering, electronics engineering, etc.

All at high salaries and the company does not generate enough to cover this level of overhead--and none of them work enough to justify their so called full time positions.I know about them as I had hired them to build my boat dock and they did not follow the engineering drawings/approved permit, used number 2 lumber for supports, etc. 

But new engineers making 150+ right out of college with signing bonuses is normal...