I own an engineering company and I’m new to real estate.

Hey @Michael Nathanson, from one engineer to another, congratulations on making progress toward your next great deal!

Because they are book works, go by algorithms, they do what they're told to do by the companies they work with, don't dare go to far and think outside the box, just play the game.

.- Pour new footer and reinforce with concrete and rebar per engineering report.- Backfill soil around each footer.- Dig around 7 exposed deck footers and reinforce, dig 2 feet and apply rebar, pour concrete and replace old footers.

I have been in the business now for over 40 years, got pretty good at contract engineering, controlling real estate, options, delayed settlement and have done hundreds of assignment, just wondering, why a "land contract"?

I work full-time as an engineer but am studying to get my real estate license soon.

@Andrew B.I’m a forensic structural engineer, just plug the hole when it’s dry with some repair material from Home Depot.

This rule is applied to each property separately unless you make an election to pull all properties together for the purposes of these rules Thus if you have a full time day job as a software engineer working 2080 hours, you would need 2081 hours in your real estate work - it would take some very good contemporaneous time logs for the IRS to agree with you on being a qualified real estate professional.The 500 hours you allude to is part of the material participation hurdle you also must cross.

Air bnb and homeaway are proving to be terrible search engines. best case scenario, looking for a house with a private pool, quite area nad a few acres of land would be an added bonus. was hoping to find someone here who deals with short term/vacation rentals that can provide leads

FLW is the headquarters for the Army's Chemical Program, Engineers, and Military Police, they have basic training and OSUT there, officer training, and warrant officer training.