It turns out that coordinating engineers, marketing and sales to launch a software product is not crazy different from coordinating vendors and subs to "launch" a construction project.I will disagree with everyone who says that hiring subs yourself puts you at a pricing disadvantage vs. prices GCs get. 

Remember there was 2 miles of ice on top of MN until it all went away, before humans invented their first engine.

I'm just gonna take the specs to local engineer or architect pay whatever consultation fee and have them review it.

Would like the subsequent to be 20 some units. way to step it up great work, I'd encourage you to look at single plots of land and one large tract of land and one multifamily or mixed use that has 20 housing units. without plats and engineering if you are really feeling it go for midrise over 5 stories wait till you see how much you can make! 

Well besides the hard costs (construction, materials) and soft costs (permitting, architecture, fees, engineering) people often forget holding costs. 

However, I strongly suggest to seek a structure engineer or architect/drafter that guide/help you on planning and dealing with zoning permits as well.

I'm a software engineer for a company called Accenture but I dabbled in underwriting multifamily on the side.

It's also important that you have a good civil engineer.

I lead every stage of the development from the rezoning of the property, handling all the communication with architects and engineers.

The study identifies with forensic engineering detail the immediate Bonus Depreciation 5, 7 and 15-year personal property class lives qualifying portions of a building that are normally buried in 27.5 year residential or 39 year commercial categories.