This breakdown is also how when you as an investor can value engineer, cut costs, when you project is legitimately over budget.  

I graduated from school about two years ago and I'm currently an engineer for a glass manufacturing company in Cleveland, Ohio.  

I knew a long time ago, that I needed to move up a '0' to the end of my purchases and sales, I thought the next move might be cars, but I don't know cars like I do phones, and I don't have connections in the automotive industry either.

For the drain lines, the traps are where water is held, so as others have posted those are filled with RV antifreeze; don't use regular automotive radiator antifreeze.  

Maybe they aren't into real estate but they started their own business or got an engineering degree and went to med school.It sounds like you would like to enjoy some things you could afford but that your friends cannot.  

He informed me I could call a private environmental consultant who could have it verified and mitigated or approved from the Army Corps of Engineering. 

Like I said it has some scary foundation stuff but I work with a couple structural engineers who aren't trying to sell piers (but have every incentive too) telling me that it's no biggie... just a veneer problem.

After running through the beginners guide and picking around a bit, BiggerPockets seems to be a treasure trove of information.I'm a 27 year old mechanical engineer who bought his first house in June (who am I kidding...

Many think they are engineers, architects, construction managers and skilled craftsmen and think they can charge accordingly, not IMO.

No offense Ali, though your education in engineering is very impressive, you don't have the experience in real estate to be an authority on all the markets in the country, and you haven't been through enough of the cycles to know how each area can be affected by various events.