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. 

I’m a new investor and an agent, so I’d love to have an idea of how I can be a better agent and how to reverse engineer it when needed.  

Values at least in our market were quite sticky and on top of that our competition when rates sky rocketed de engineered their houses to get their prices down. 

I work with CSSI who are the nation's premier engineer-based cost segregation firm with over 45k is completed studies. 

Also have a foundation repair engineer confirm the status of the foundation.3) Request for the most recent survey of the property.

Likely you can get those plans with a records request from the municipality where this property is located.You'll need to get surveyor, architect, and civil engineer on board earlier than later. 

I'm frankly surprised at how robust the market has remained.

If you can spend more, you could use composite lumber or engineered lumber which can be more resistant

They boast a robust portfolio management suite with some fancy bells and whistles, but they're using independent third party contractors to scale on the ground.