Networking is always a great practice and you never know who you might meet there and what good information they have to share.

There' practically no comps for a 4 family in that area so myself and my friend(agent) comped it somewhere in the 800k's. 

Whatever the specific risk they may be asking about (in this case a market downturn), it’s still fundamentally about how you manage and mitigate risk.In these cases, I describe our practices for how we manage and mitigate risk.

Just over a year later I went through some personal issues and relocated thus renting the house to tenants.

@fred moskowitz suggestion I also downloaded an HP12C app to my phone as I understand it'll be needed to practice some of the financial exercises.

It's also best practice, in my opinion, to make the 'base' purchase price offer a reasonably high amount that should be acceptable as is, rather than low balling and having a huge range for escalation.

Networking is always a great practice and you never know who you might meet there and what good information they have to share.

Just not sure if this is common practice or not.

One benefit I have hear of for using a lawyer is that they have practice insurance.

Then there are some open-ended questions that could help you out even if you don't decide to work with this person long term.Here are some ideas along those lines:What are the top three or four activities in your real estate related practice?