@Riley SchaeferThis question has been frequently discussed on this forum if you search it.Short story: real cost seg studies (with a site visit and an engineer's report) on SFRs are usually not cost-effective, unless you have a large portfolio concentrated in one area, and the cost seg company will give you a package deal. 

I graduated from the University of Texas at Tyler in 2019 with a Mechanical Engineering degree.

After finishing college at Texas Tech University, I moved to Greenville, Texas which is outside of Dallas for a engineering job at L3Harris.

:-)I am chemical engineer by school, currently a sales manager in biotech as a day job. 

Practice running the numbers is huge, the wholesale and fix and flip calculators here on BP are good to plug numbers in and see how each effects the deal.You can also "reverse engineer" deals in your area. 

I'm a software engineer by trade, but work a lot with a property developer.

Looking to find buyers for these also, I’ve reversed engineered list source buyers of mobile homes; 14 were brought.

I offered on a property that had significant erosion into Toledo Bend Lake after Harvey and planned on doing a concrete bulkhead, only to find out the Army Corps of Engineers had bought all the properties on this particular shoreline and then let the owners buy them back for 10 cents on the dollar, figuring this would be cheaper than actually shoring up the eroding hillside.

Was told by plow man that generally have to have engineered fields now (lots of clay out here).   

Would any new or seasoned investors find value in using or hiring a construction consultant? Or for those who have no construction/contractor/carpentry experience, knowledge and background, would you find value learni...