I think part of the trick is knowing how sturdy your limb is that you're out on and knowing when to stand pat.

So the cost to turn this into a living space might be exorbitant.....check this out with a GC and/or Engineer before you go too far down this road....

Any engineers or CPAs do one recently here?

Once  the arhitect is through with the preliminary work, the GC can help value engineer the design before the final permit application submission is made.

Once you are under contract, the attorney can build the mortgage, promissory note, and amortization schedule.Go to your favorite search engine and enter "owner financing real estate."

just want to share my view that the solar is very famous around the "overpaid engineers community" and "Tesla/Elon Musk" followes. but for the rest of guys maybe ......

It's not like I answered a call from a random septic company with some story about this and hired them on the spot. ah yes you did not say it was an engineered system .. 

I am a software engineer making about 250k+ a year4.

Most of the time it's a scenario where they take a photo (And mark it with a red box in the actual report) of a quarter sized hole on the siding of the house and make a request like "Structural engineer needed for further inspection" lol.

A study published by the CCIM institute looked at 50 years of history and reverse-engineered the interest costs of 5-year fixed and floating loans over 562 starting points and found that floating rate borrowers “won” 72% of the time.