How a Consumer Hired a Lawyer to Draft a Property Deed in Pennsylvania

contract/document to remove co owner’s name from our property

Dolan W.

"Beware that his statement of “satisfaction guaranteed” is false. I contacted Dolan to facilitate a quit claim deed for a jointly owned property with a brief statement stating that one party would be taking financial responsibility as two people would remain on the properties mortgage. I am new to my area and don’t know any lawyers so I went online to read reviews and chose contract counsel. I have no background in real estate law, but was told by the register of deeds to fill out a quitclaim deed form and to get a lawyer. Dolan assured me that he could do the job for $600. Within 15 minutes he sent over what appeared to be a canned document, partly containing language that didn’t pertain to my situation and told me that I could edit it and fill in all of the details myself. When I asked if this was the quitclaim deed, he explained that was something that I had to do myself. When I contacted the register of deeds in my county, they said that a lawyer should take care of it. Dolan insisted that he couldn’t do the quitclaim for me and said that if I filled out the form he could look it over. I asked to be refunded half of the payment because he had spent 15 minutes working on my case, and I still didn’t have the issue I came to him for resolved. I finally found a local lawyer to verify the information because I was worried about not having this done properly. The lawyer stated that a quitclaim deed requires having a new deed drafted, signed notorized and filed. He offered to do it all for $350. I again asked for half of my money back and Dolan essentially told me that the lawyer I spoke to was just trying to scare me and get my business and that he did what he could at the price I paid. So he basically took $600 to send me something I could have printed off the internet and I ended up paying almost $1000 for something that should have cost $350. Save yourself the money, and contact a local lawyer. There is also no protection on this website and they will automatically charge your payment when the lawyer says the job is done."

Drafting

Property Deed

ContractsCounsel User