Medical practitioners do that as a matter of course to reduce possibility of carrying germs into house when returning from the hospital. 

The ASCSP website https://www.ascsp.org/about-th...might give you some insight into what topics and areas practitioners need or should be knowledgeable.  

Unfortunately, unless you have been a real estate practitioner, and a good one, you don't know what you don't know, which makes a conversation like this incredibly difficult to understand from a layman's perspective. 

If deemed “quality”, it helps expedite the audit process and ultimately reduces the audit burden on not only the practitioners and examiners, but also on you, the taxpayer.

If this a market reaction to the horrible wait times in hospital ERs.With or without Obamacare, medical practitioners have to have office space.

I am fortunate that the Agent was an excellent practitioner for two reasons (1) it was a complicated transaction, but he had a great system and (2) I took his advice on my offer amount.

It's just really important to get this stuff right, especially as practitioners, or else we might be messing up a lot of returns.

There are several differences and also an area of opportunity.Your best bet if you want someone local...below the gnat line...is to ask for referrals within your network or join a local RE association and ask for referrals.If you aren't opposed to working remotely, there are at least a dozen tax practitioners who are active (or semi-active) on this subforum. 

While an Attorney can represent you in all courts, a CPA or EA can represent you in Tax Court if they obtain a USTCP designation (US Tax Court Practitioner).Do not be fooled by someones credentials, make sure that you properly vet any professional that you hire.Best of luck!

BTW, a tax practitioner will spend the first seven or eight years of his professional career making decisions for his clients based on his knowledge of the law.