Hiring an attorney for real estate investment

[Daniel Ortega]

Hello BP, 

I am looking for advice on how to go about hiring an attorney for real estate investing with a group. Specifically covering the general overview of partnerships. Some things to note are that we are investing as a 3 person group, we are hoping to get our first property(our offer has been accepted and is now in the due diligence portion), all 3 of us are on the loan and will be on the deed for our initial property, and we plan on pursing an attorney for future properties, exit strategies and whatever else we have to cover. Our property will be in Maine, we wanted to know if it mattered if the attorney was in Maine or where we currently reside in(San Diego). Next, we wanted to know what NEEDS to be covered while consulting an attorney for this partnership, is there a standard overview of this that everyone follows? Any advice or information is definitely appreciated and thank you!