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Okay. Taking a step back a second from my more frantic post on Monday. I was really just upset at the atty for losing us the closing on Friday and all the extra work it will now take for our (still unknown) closing date next week (hopefully).

Today my wife called the bank attorney to follow up on the doc that my atty had forwarded and realized that he had not even seen it. We almost lost yet another 1-2 days because my attorney was “at a closing” and too busy to follow through on the one simple task we have needed for a week.

We are anxious to get our contractors in, but didn’t do the “silly” thing that cmu mentioned and actually schedule anyone. Our only real losses will be weekend time that we could be preparing the house for contractors and possibly $2000 if we lose a month getting the attached rental unit filled.

That being said — why do we put up with these people and what is the recourse against these terrible attorneys? I have email evidence of two events where he did not act in our interests to get this done and forced the closing date back further than necessary. We have caught him lying twice when we have had the chance to verify his claims (mostly just stalling — blaming delays on other people when they’re completely free/waiting) and question many of his “out at a closing” or “they had two closings today” as reasons to delay close to a week further still. I realize RE attys have to be at closings, but come on — he has a blackberry, something that we actually paid up for because of the illusion he can multi-task and stay in touch.

Somewhere in this, I realize that these people are in a service driven industry. I have asked multiple times what exactly I am paying him for, but am bound to the fixed fee that we agreed on. Is my only recourse to post a bad review on the internet and maybe complain to a few agencies?