This is where creative strategies (and unfortunately basic strategies) are made and understood.4 - Learn how to design, and stay with, your own personal REI Plan, based on reverse engineering from your financial goals back to where you are standing right now.5 - Learn the importance of this number sequence:  1073741824, and how to apply it to EVERY decision you make in Step #4.6 - Learn, and understand the difference between Total Cost and Your cost.7 - Learn the value of your cash as a verb, and not a noun.8 - Learn why Einstein referred to "compounding" as the greatest invent.9 - Learn how to decide which of the following is the right answer for each deal: 3 + 3 = 6; 4 + 2 = 6; and 2 * 3 also = 610 - Learn why equity is dead cash, and how you can give it life again.

I was born and raised in Oregon and got a degree in Energy Systems Engineering, but life has its twists and I now find myself in OKC with a real estate license and goals to financially "free myself up," with real estate investing.

@Chris Wolf, I'm a structural engineer in the Atlanta, GA area.

Their Paragon MLS service covers a vast majority of the U.S. and their advanced algorithms calculate the estimated values of homes.

I am a working mom of a growing family, my hubby is an engineer and loves is W-2 job so we are somewhat tied to this area and still have our primary residence here.

Costs will vary greatly depending on location, slab and wall specifications, utilities rough in, number of openings, roof structure, site conditions, logistics, labor market, unions, permits, engineering, materials availability and details and level of finish of partitioning to name a few.

Do I need to hire an Engineer or is this something a contractor can easily do without much complication? 

But most flippers in our market go with a middle of the road product, which is often an engineered hardwood.

They all have their own algorithms that they use to price the coverage at a particular property.

There are people who specialize in this and basically and engineer does the study.