Or, I look at the overall robust economy, the relatively strong housing market, and wonder if I'm entering at a bad time - but then realize that when/if things crash, that'll be another round of changes that provides for opportunity.Opportunity is born from change, and at 42, I'm old enough to know that the secret to doing something is to just get started, and to keep chipping away at it.Anyway, my short term goal, once I have finished doing enough research and working on getting the overall engine in place, is to get a couple deals under my belt, and get an idea of what pieces of my process needs refinement in order to scale up a bit.

I had an engineer look at it and although the conclusion was the building is structurally sound, the city wants me to address the engineer's suggestions including some foundation and structural reinforcements and exterior work.  

Im currently looking for recommendations for a foundation engineer in the Oakland/East Bay area of Northern, CA who can provide an unbiased opinion on whether there are foundations issues that need to be resolved.

I do not recommend patch of land, after having the report for a week they requested and engineers report the day before closing because the pain on the exterior was chipped. 

I’ll answer as an engineer.

I'm Kevin O'Brien, a 29 year old engineer living in Chicago....I just wanted to say hello!

Fortunately I'm a software engineer in real life so I'm sure I can hack something together. 

I work as a structural engineer for a company and we do some foundation assessment from time to time.

I'm a civil engineer with a steady income, good credit and no debt.My question to this forum is, how do I go about? 

That being said as an engineer I can also tell you your AC can only cool so much, due to thermodynamics lol.So keep the AC unit and tell your tenants that if it’s hundred plus outside it’s not gonna get much lower than probably 72.