Since graduating from college in the midwest, I have been working professionally for a handful of years now as an engineer.

.+1 We engineers need to eat, too. 

There is nothing to fear about this market or its volatility ... market volatility can be your best friend if you know what you are doing and play it right on the upside, and engineer your investments so it cannot hurt you on the downside.

A good civil engineer can do this for you.

state engineered? 

I have always been a lifestyle entrepreneur from the start and when I was 15 my dad took me to a seminar called Ex___s Academy and since that day I've been trying to engineer a lifestyle that involves doing the things I love and making a living from it.

I can only tell  you how it is for us, but you can "reverse engineer" my comments to your use.My wife and I own 48 units spread over 11 buildings from 1-11 units each, within 2 miles of each other.

I'm a car guy, so I eventually decided that mechanical engineering would be the perfect career for me. 

Generally you will need a team of people if it is acreage including a surveyor, civil engineer, environmental professionals, and attorney that do land development.

They feel threatened because you might interfere with their plan.You need yo reverse engineer the property title and see if it's worthwhile to pursue at all or if a different approach might better exploit profits.Search on this site fire my PETIO format discussed at length.