It shouldn't come as a surprise that my $19/sf multi-unit, in a decent neighborhood, is the gift that keeps on giving.When I had the structural engineer look at the properties before buying, he said that we could probably plan on doing most of the structural repairs 'over the next few years.'

I currently work as an electrical engineer in the semiconductor industry and have been doing that since I graduated college 12yrs ago.

When I started out I wasn't comfortable with hiring contractors to do things I didn't understand (yes, I was educated as an engineer).

It’s always rented well and one tenant has been there 15 years.It looks like the property could use a little work from the outside and when she bought the property 25 years ago she had a structural engineer come take a look at the foundation that was buckling.

Just soliciting design ideas Bryan ;-) So far I am partial to a pattern similar to this one for the ghastly side: Leading Spite Fence Design For Ghastly Side There may need to be some engineering changes given that it needs to be done as a fence, but we're just brainstorming at this point.

He works full time as an engineer, so most of the responsibility was mine.In 2006, the first thing I did was purchase books - "Landlording" and a book about cash flow by Frank Gallinelli.

Zillow uses an algorithm to estimate what the comparable sales are.

It's 40 x 100 with 16) 5x10 and 16) 10x20 I'm at about $90,000 including dirt work and civil engineering, everything.

He's an engineer (young guy) and said in last quarter alone, Ford has added 1700 new recruits.

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