Most of the time it's a scenario where they take a photo (And mark it with a red box in the actual report) of a quarter sized hole on the siding of the house and make a request like "Structural engineer needed for further inspection" lol.

My electricity, water, phone every is about to get shut off and my car repossessed.

After 30 years as an electric motor technician, I’ve transitioned into real estate to achieve financial freedom and spend more quality time with my spouse.

Access to utilities like water, electric, sewer, and internet plays a HUGE role in which strategy to choose.

As far as expenses for things such as electricity and RE taxes (paid in 2023), those will generally be deductible on Sch E.

It's not like I answered a call from a random septic company with some story about this and hired them on the spot. ah yes you did not say it was an engineered system .. 

Even though they are renovated, they have to be pretty old in Richardson, maybe 70s vintage, so I would want to know who rehabbed them and what did they actually do....like new electrical and plumbing...any foundation work?

I have an electrical background my father is licensed so not afraid of upgrading services and fixtures that other investors don't want to touch. 

A study published by the CCIM institute looked at 50 years of history and reverse-engineered the interest costs of 5-year fixed and floating loans over 562 starting points and found that floating rate borrowers “won” 72% of the time.

Training is nice, but very often the real world proves that it only goes so far.I have hired dozens of interns in my previous W2 engineering job and each and every one of them was surprised at how much they didn't know.