I dont quite have the advice on the exact financial question your asking, but I'm a civil engineer located in San Antonio. 

Things have changed, but software engineering remains a lifelong passion for me.Professionally, I’ve worked for some of the biggest names in tech — Microsoft and Meta (Facebook) — where I developed a strong foundation in scalable software practices.

For properties in the $300K–$800K range, many investors get high ROI from engineered studies priced at $2,500–$4,500, not the $8,000 you might hear quoted.

According to Google search engine, the average rates (as of 5/19/23) are 7.521%.

Hello Seth,Thank you for the advice it’s definitely super helpful and appreciated.To answer some of your questions: I currently own my home and have steady employment as a Network Field Engineer, which takes care of the bills.

A client of ours bought a ranch to use as a short term rental property in 2021 for $1.7 million.After our engineers did a virtual site visit, they were able to assign a value of $347,000 into either 5-7-15 year assets that were eligible for depreciation.In 2021, the bonus depreciation amount that you could take was 100%.This means that the owner could immediately deduct the full amount of eligible property in the year it was placed in service, rather than depreciating it over time.With that in mind, he took the full $347K deduction in his first year of ownership to offset taxable income from rentals.This was roughly ~20% of his purchase price.It was a big win for him.As a reminder, the bonus depreciation rate in 2025 is back to 100%, it's still an incredibly valuable tool.

I've been generating motivated seller leads from search engines since 2015.

Hello, I am a 19 year old college student majoring in engineering who wants to start making money within real estate.

Generally speaking private note holders or commercial banks are more likely to start a foreclosure if you transfer title ( AKA Alienation of title ).These clauses are in the mortgages but NO ONE ever reads them.. or very few except engineers who read every line  LOL

I think you'll have to price this house per the appraisal, versus what some algorithm says it will produce as a short-term rental.