I do not think I am new to contracting, education wise I have a masters degree in project management and a bachelors in civil engineering.

Hey everybody, my name is Zach, I'm an engineer at Bell Helicopter and am looking to get into real estate investing.  

@Greg H.I used to look a the bidding results but ever since they removed the downloadable excel sheet for it, I stopped so don't really have a data on that (I'm a software engineer by day so I have a couple of scripts I run to help me with my analysis).However, as a licensed agent, I have the advantage of bidding to as many properties as I can in HUD (with the help of my partner).

I've only been exploring this whole new world for a month now, but I am about to start my 4th book (I'm a slow reader but getting faster) and have not listened to music in the car for a while now, just podcasts and it's been really amazing learning about real estate.I am currently the engineering & quality assurance manager for an overhead crane company in Azle and I'm looking to further my knowledge in real estate and figure out how and when to make my first deal.

I tried reverse engineering the numbers to figure out what I would have to offer to make it profitable.

Here's where I need some experienced investors to help me out, since I've always relied on banks for most of these tasks.The realtor is requesting my deposit amount, closing date, engineer's inspection required, and anything else that should go in the contract. 

I use scrum daily at my engineering job and I disagree with J Scott above in his assessment that scrum makes things over budget and over time - that's just using it wrong (no true Scottsman, I realize).I do agree with J that it is rather incompatible because you can't have varying degrees of "releasable" house... well... let me contradict myself.

We're between wood-like tile and engineered hardwood (floating system).  

This is the reason:  Whenever you type into search engines and ask for 125k and below alot of times the  125k priced home doesn't show up.Also, for what it is worth.  

After the market dropped out I started building technology companies and have been doing so ever since.As of recent I have been building a geospatial search engine which aims to simplify working with numerous geospatial data sets (i.e. zoning, overlays, parcel outlines, etc.).