I am an engineer turned to technical sales from Tennessee. 

You need to establish your goals (this is almost always misunderstood), and how to use reverse engineering to connect where you are now to where you want to be (goals). 

Professionally, I have a mechanical engineering degree and work in the commercial HVAC construction industry in Houston.

I am a Mechanical Engineer by training.

Hi, looking for an architect/engineer/skilled contractor for:1) MEP drawings for a city-approved conversion from a SFH to a duplex.

Study something like computer science, engineering etc.

This is where people get in trouble, thinking they can out compete all the other sharks in RE or computers that run algorithms to trade stocks. 

But depending on what they find, you can get much more specialized with radon, stucco, plumbing scoping, structural engineering , etc. but hopefully the home inspector can eliminate the need for most of that - or at least give you the information to make an informed decision.

My wife and I are from Western Ohio, but we are currently located in Auckland, New Zealand for my job (Software Engineer).My wife and I have had one adventure in real estate, where we purchased our first house out of college for $46k, rehabbed it over 5 years, and then sold it for $180k, profiting approximately $60k.

And the Buyers agent asked for us to pay for a structural engineer to come in and "evaluate these items" Including a transition area that just needs a threshold.