Here are some quick factors, if there is a room above this low ceiling room and is the low ceiling in this room a hard ceiling attached to strapping/floor joists for the above room then it is going to be majorly cost prohibitive in my opinion to pursue this option.If the roof above this room is framed with trusses (look for steel mending plates at all joints) then again, majorly cost prohibitive and you want an engineer involved. 

Originally from Springfield, Missouri, but moved to Arizona for my Master's degree in hydrology, I am currently working as a hydrologist for a water resources engineering firm in Tempe.My current goals in real estate are to start out by BRRRRing SFHs, work up to BRRRRs for small multifamily properties, and eventually get into larger multifamily investing.

I have a Mathematics & Economics degree and got 4.0 GPA at college, but I made terrible investment decisions before even when I programmed a deep learning algorithm using probability and statistics to predict the stock market.

At the time the majority were engineers on local jobs & many had a great living allowance/stipend so life was good & the fridge was always full.It paid off in spades & I never had to evict anyone, except for one sharing a room.

At the same time, it will be expensive to go to an engineering firm at this stage.

If you're an Engineer and appreciate AWS before everyone else understands, invest in Amazon.The people on BP have chosen to get an advantage in real estate. 

Hello all, I am from the Pittsburgh area where I am still in college working on my junior year at a mechanical engineering degree.

Currently I am an engineering consultant located in the Indianapolis IN area.

I am getting my degrees in Computer Science (possibly engineering, they are re-working the program at the moment) and in Physics.

@David Russell  Credit score is only part of your fundability issue, it's how you are handling your money and the algorithms lenders use to determine if you are a good borrow.