Except the engineers....for all that I pick on them a lot (and I do), they do tend to follow a plan (once they have grossly over-analyzed it).Bottom line:  Most REI LLC's I have seen would be easily pierced. 

Transitioning from SFR to Multifamily (5+ units) and need advice on due diligenceDo you recommend engineering inspection for a 22-unit apartment purchase?

Yesterday a new Indian engineer moved into a place with 2 other engineers that had been renting from me for the last 3 weeks. 

Look for a local civil engineer who can assist with a first draft concept site plan. 

For example a 300K sqft office building will have a lot more work involved for the engineers than a 30k sqft office building since the engineer will need to go into each suite, if the buildouts are different.

The amount of hard engineering is about the same as the amount of design aesthetic so I think you could make it fly.

The city of Saint Paul Minnesota is asking for Heating- HVAc engineering design plan for our new commercial / residential 4500 square feet plan.Do you know a company in the Twin Cities?

like all algorithms the more data it has the better it gets, so neighborhoods with lots of comps and similar houses get closer estimates.

Tell them your score and your situation and have them run it in their pricing engine. 

You don’t want them going back to the search engine result page and clicking a competitor.