I had been in touch with lawyer for bank pre-auction in effort to try to purchase but he couldn't do anything then...maybe he can now?

Hi, I'm a newbie to Bigger Pockets and real estate and looking for some recommendations for lawyers and cpa contacts in the Houston, TX area?

Hi, I'm a newbie to Bigger Pockets and real estate and looking for some recommendations for lawyers and cpa contacts in the Houston, TX area?

also what other forms and contracts i need to do deeal?

Make sure you know your friend not only as "fun" friend but also as a "business" friend....then make a good operating agreement (advise with lawyer) and you should be ok.You are both in the same situation and the investment is relatively low so it should not be much of an issue.If it was a bigger deal than much higher risk and much more "IFs"

@John De angelis Contact your lawyer.  

Off topic - the lawyer at my brokerage hates the word 'ratified' because she says there's no such thing as a ratified contract.

We had to see a lawyer about this and in the end learned that this was her tactic for bullying tenants into keeping their entire security deposits.

Hand the contract over to our lawyer?

With that said the SEC filings can be quite minimal if you use an exception, we put some documentation together using a lawyer and it was about 5K to set it all up.