A CPA and lawyer should be part of your team but not necessarily from the same in house group for assurance purposes - @Paul Beets depending on your framework you should leverage the two separately of their industry knowledge, experience and network to grow your endeavors. 

I wish you the best of luck on all of your endeavors for they are feasible depending on how hard you want to work because this is definitely not an over night get rich quick kind of thing.

The second estate he inherited was from his half brother; he once again operated their estate in a way to keep it whole and did not do land development; instead he started numerous business endeavors to keep the estate profitable. 

I have no experience in the field and understand fully it's not a simple endeavor. 

If by real estate business you’re implying you have little or no money to invest but are contemplating using one of the guru inspired methods (subject to, “wholesaling” , fix n flip) to create cash flow, I’d encourage you to do research on the true success/failure rate of people who engage in these endeavors, the amount of money the successful operators spend monthly on marketing, and the real time commitment and knowledge and experience necessary for success.  

The IRS will never contact you by text, email or social media to request personal information.Education for Your Staff: Be sure your staff knows how to recognize a phishing attempt and how to report it when one occurs.

If the syndication deal was without significant risk, they wouldn’t be attempting to offer/providing 17% return.

Many people have attempted (and failed) to outwit the IRS on this matter.

@Rene Hosman I have been attempting to pay off extra on my mortgages every month.

Most notably a rehab that went $100k over budget and a failed attempt at Airbnbing an Airstream that was a $30k mistake