Maybe on a future post if anyone cares I will elaborate on my realtor/lender/contractor headache because it would be a lottttttttttt of typing haha.SPECIFICS:-list price: $75,000-purchase price: $70,500-loan type: conventional renovation loan - 5% down payment/have to live the property for a year-Reno cost: $12,700-Total price: $83,200-Cash invested: $9760Structural engineer inspection $450- Home inspection $350- Earnest money $2,000- down payment $4160 (5% of $83,200) closing costs $2800.- Appraised value: $124,000!

Architects and engineers are in the front line of growth. 

I even lived in my 4-door sedan for more than half of 2018 while I finished self-teaching myself to be a software engineer.2019, things are much different!

I quit my day Engineering day job 3 yrs ago via buying enough rentals. 

Purchase price: $100,000 Cash invested: $20,000 A foreclosure house my family purchased to house hack while I attended Texas A&M for my undergrad in Mechanical Engineering, I was a present landlord throughout college, now I'm a out of town landlord as my job took me to Houston.

@Elise Hazzard My 9-5 is in mechanical engineering, so not much cross-over there unfortunately. 

For this situation I would consider reverse engineering similar sold properties.

We learned to have the architect, engineer, and planner to all get together during the due diligence to speed up the process and not have a long hold time of no construction.

I graduate in May and I will be relocating to Houston Texas to work as a Software Engineering Consultant.

Your best bet is to contact the specific town engineers, assessors office, or zoning office (could be any of those depending on the municipality) of the town a property is in and ask them if what you are looking to do is possible and what the process would be for doing so.