I am currently working in a structural engineering firm in South Boston.I don't have the assets of my own to play with right now (young growing family and all that) so my slowly evolving business plan is to start with flipping to raise short term capital to be able to get into an owner occupied multi-family and then to develop a rental portfolio.To be honest there is a degree of fear that goes into diving into something as big as this and I appreciate all the information that is available right here on BP.

Owning an appreciating asset which is also providing high yearly returns is what Real Estate is all about.Movoto.com has a pretty great statistics graph engine.

A town engineer initially said the water would flow into a ditch elsewhere on Kieffer property.

I have been involved in construction, framing homes, and now I am a Civil Engineer and Project Manager investing on the side with one rental.Just wanted to tell everyone hi and looking to network in the Utah area.

Well 20 SFR's, that's actually my goal in order to change my Engineering job to a hobby - maybe that's not your goal, but anyway's, 1down, many more to go!

As Simon pointed out, no, you can't sell the third floor unless you make it a condo, going to the zoning board, building regs, meeting engineering requirements, have new legal descriptions made and approved.

Soft money pays soft costs, like attorney fees, engineering on transactions.

David Weiss - I am a Software Engineer by trade, but have had a bunch of different roles around Engineering and Customer support over my time with my company.

I'm a 28 year old mechanical engineer by day, and have been investing in real estate in Rochester for a couple years now.

A little about me, I am a full-time engineer by day and a real estate investor by night.