I am now working as an engineer in the Twin Cities, but have plans of moving to Austin, TX with my wife to house-hack and work in the more plentiful tech market over there. 

I hired a surveyor,  engineer and ran through the process with the city myself. 

An additional benefit of a detailed engineering-based Cost Segregation Study is that it can increase potential insurance premium savings as well as provide support for the property tax appeals process.

@Vidit Maini,I'm a structural engineer in the Atlanta area.

You will probably want to engage an engineer to provide an engineered plan for the lots and attorney who frequently presents variance cases.

You can read about the differences here: Cost Segregation Study Approaches ExplainedLet’s first start with what the approaches:Detailed Engineering Approach from Actual Cost RecordsDetailed Engineering Cost Estimate ApproachSurvey or Letter ApproachResidual Estimation ApproachSampling or Modeling Approach"Rule of Thumb" ApproachSo which of these approaches is required by the IRS?

Go to your favorite search engine (e.g. google.com) and type in "North Carolina 10 day notice" and you will get a ton of responses.

The contractor that we have been working with for a while came to take a look at the walls with the structural engineers, and they told us we have to change the structure of the entire kitchen wall.

You're netting $5k/mo and have no cash available and you're working a civil engineering job?

Who Am I:Hi, I’m Daniel Carrillo, an industrial engineer from Seattle, WA.