Yeah nothing to show but a successful real estate portfolio, partially funded by a software engineering career that lets me glue django and twilio together to roll my own spam tool in a weekend, if I wanted to.

We’re both engineers.

Recommend you get with your engineering firm and tell them what you want. 

Long story short, they recommend a process that basically looks like...Soil scientist --> (septic engineer IF needed) --> site plan --> county approval...We've spoken to a few soil scientists and they all quote 2k-5k to analyze the property for an appropriately sized septic system. 

I agree with the previous comments about figuring out what your goals are in the next 10 years and reverse engineer - what do you need to do to achieve this? 

I give them Engineering report For any structure changes.

I’m a few years out of college and working as a software engineer in Indianapolis.

An additional benefit of a detailed engineering-based Cost Segregation Study is that it can increase potential insurance premium savings as well as provide support for the property tax appeals process.

One of the biggest takeaways from my Master's Program in Engineering that has made a huge impact is this: Great solutions come from great problems - you can't find the solution without first understanding the problem. 

I explained I'm a network engineer & am pretty familiar with licensing fees & the open source (aka FREE) options that are available.