@Barry Allen I take it that you are interested in Real Estate Investment, so I would suggest you find something in that industry.

I have been in the construction and real estate industry for the past 15+ years.

It helps protect yourself for sure from the poorly trained legal people or from people that claim to be in the industry, BS and scam artists.

REI is a specific and complicated subset of business finance, accounting, and tax preparation - and taking advantage of the tax law to pay only the taxes that are legally due, requires tax code knowledge that is specific to this industry and your specific tax classification within it.I am very glad that you are asking about using an attorney - as there usually is a huge temptation to do it all yourself and the internet makes it look soooo easy.  

We've seen some good improvements in the visitor industry so far (the last 40 days, when tourism opened back up). 

This forum is not about stocks, but I actually find it very useful to study balance sheets and income statements of publicly traded companies in other industries to get a sense for how they manage leverage and risk ... it is insightful to see utility companies leverage way up since their income streams are so steady while tech companies tend to have little to no leverage since their income streams can change at the drop of a hat (good or bad) with new innovations, and yet they can both still be very profitable.

On a side note, the real estate industry, is starting to look a little like 2006.

I am currently employed as a senior sales engineer, and my job is to program and sell capital equipment within the industrial automation and manufacturing sector (I figure out ways to reduce labor costs in factories by replacing people with machines.

Then add 30% to your cost estimate, which is a standard uncertainty factor in the construction industry.

What's a reasonable commission percentage in the industry?