If you put 1/100 as much effort into this "business" as you did Engineering you might not have these basic questions.I think you are lucky so far and I agree with @Victoria Avery (by the way Vic, how do you know so much about restraining orders;-)

Does anybody have an awesome Civil Engineer that they are super happy with for doing short platting in Seattle/King County area?

A typical project would include a lot of new flooring, new sheetrock (many of the houses have only paneling that I replace), new kitchen cabinets and new bath vanities anyway so the way I look at it is the renovation cost would be similar (maybe slightly higher) and the demolition has already been done for me (Ill save $1200 in demo costs).Am I missing something here?

My accountant says that if the carpet is badly stained, replacing it with new flooring might be considered a repair. 

I am currently a Chief Engineer for an airport property.

He owes $3761 to Home Depot for replaced windows.

The whole reason for this was to make him some money but he is mad that I opted to refinish the nice maple hardwood instead of throwing carpet back in, and I had to completely remodel 2 bathrooms and I replaced lath and plaster with Sheetrock where he wanted to just mud the cracks.

In the rental market, it is very hard to replace a new good tenant without the sacrifice of being vacant.

If you can't do it, ask an architect, project manager, or engineer who will draw the plans, or simply just hire a GC to do it for you.

I know as I'm currently replacing a floor in my rentals kitchen, dining room and living room.