we sell a lot and not all cracks are bad.Hairline cracks with no movement - we just seal or epoxy inject and go on.Cracks that are substantial with no movement we also seal.With movement on the wall we ad beams that tie into the floor and the main house to hold the wall up.with cracks in the floor with movement, sometimes you have to put a pier under the foundation.When ever there is visible movement of the wall or floor we get an engineer to tell us what to do and give that to the foundation company to use in their bid. 

I work in construction, have done a lot of my own work and am a Civil Engineer by trade.

I'm also a Music Producer, Engineer and a recording artist.

I am a recent college graduate and my day job is as a mechanical engineer.

That much is obvious because they never built and eventually they were foreclosed on and had a huge lien on the property from the old engineer they worked with. 

Who do I contact to evaluate land (surveyor, engineer, etc)3. how do I finance the land.

A ton of wholesalers and flippers, but not a lot of developers.  1) I've never tried getting financing to buy the land, I typically buy my land cash so I'm not incurring holing cost while waiting for approval 2) it should not be difficult to get a construction loan, I know lending one offers new construction loan, for my deals I've got a private  lender that borrows me money 3) The way I structure my deals, I'm paying out of pocket for all soft cost engineering, architect,  soil test, impact fees, I left out 2 critical steps on my initial write up Soil test: I'm ordering a soil test as soon I put the lot under contract, the cost is about $500, the county would want to see the result of the test when submitting your stormwater management plan Impact fee: Make sure to check with your county, some counties have them and some don't impact fees could be huge, in my county depend on where you build impact fees could be as much as $25k or $12k 4) I try to get as much as I can get done while under contract, In my county the typical turn around time is about 4months, while in Baltimore county I know builders that will close today and break ground the very next day, they have a faster permit process 

I started investing last year right before I graduated college from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.

Im reverse engineering the numbers based on the ARV of all these properties im seeing and im just trying to wrap my head around this.I cant wrap my head around how on earth im going to be able to land a property at basically 50%!

I spend a lot of time breaking my students who have engineering degrees of this habit.