It ended up costing around 12k extra in engineering, concrete, piers, etc. 

Greetings, My partner and I are in need of referrals to find a Foundation and or Structural Engineer contract, who is experience within Colorado Springs? 

Dan,Let me start by saying that I'm an engineer, so I'm ultra-focused on the blend of cost-durability-functionality-cosmetics in all of our spending decisions.  

We call them Deltas because there is no delta (an engineering term for difference between two values) between the loan and the current market value.

I know during college there are times I switched room with others, just because one semester I am staying at the engineering lab late at night all the time, and instead of waking everyone up at 3am when I come home, I offered to move to the front bedroom and the other guy moves to the back. 

Engineered is a lot cheaper up front, but the real stuff can be re-finished a dozen times and can last decades.Provide nice-quality welcome mats at each door, and floor mats inside each door.  

Phil, I'm a beginner in real estate but I'm an engineer that specializes in protecting buildings from flood and hurricane damage.

I currently work in the oil and gas business as a Chief Engineer(Ships) for 14 years.

So then we hired a structural engineer to come out and do a report on the sunroom/deck.  

It's primarily surprising because most entrepreneurs look at software engineers like they are made out of candy.