Instead, I'm going to tell you how real estate landed me in the perfect "job".My past life was in software engineering, data & analytics, and consulting. 

Hi, I'm new to this forum and I want to start buying investment properties in the US and I'm about to start a high-paid silicon valley software engineering position in a few months.

You will most likely need the following consultants; structural engineer, MEP engineer, and civil engineer.

Imagine blowing out a wall and not having a structural engineer sign off on it, no permit and no inspection inspection to make sure that it is safe and done according to the approved drawings.

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Prior to seems like I need an architect and engineer to provide drawings and estimates.

We have several owners working on different development projects, and a few of my team members (Project Manager, Director of Development, SVP Construction and Engineering) oversee that process. 

Perhaps at that point it is a leadership or communication problem.For example…The engineers had a high certainty that the O-rings on the space shuttle Challenger would fail but they were ineffective in communicating this to their management.

A little background on myself - I have been around REI since I was born, my father is a Civil Engineer who owned and developed multiple single family homes and my mother would oversee the property management side of the business, she also owns land that she has divided into smaller parcels and sold them to multiple people while providing the financing.

I am a college grad, got my degree in engineering, do I regret it?