Lawyers Title And Escrow

These people are the most unprofessional and incompetent people ever!!!! They lack communication and put their vacation needs over getting their job done accordingly in a timely, professional matter. Be warned the worst!!!

Tried to get help from Karen Sanchez (supervisor) when James Stott failed to close our escrow that was complete. She shut down all communications and we got a "Request to quit". She refused to comment on James Stott failing to close escrow by refusing to deal with lenders, withholding documents & Communications, wiring instructions. He tried to trick me to get me to sign a form that would give him power to pay anyone. He pushed for a $839,125.00 payout to an attorney without requiring an option exercise or payment to escrow. Alexander Jacob Gershen provided a worthless quick claim deed that could not be filed on title and was going to be "self notarized" by a named party. Classic scam & Fraud. Karen did not care about ANYTHING. Would not reveal any communications or justify. Took all staff off the deal and managed it himself saying "due to the complexity" She gave us "next morning" to transfer buyers funds, but of course that was impossible. Buyer pulled out and purchase failed even though it was complete including final walk through. Disgusting breach of duty.

I’ve dealt with Lawyers Title several times, and they’re very thorough as well as knowledgeable!

Moved without a forwarding address.

I worked on a transaction with Margaret Kelly and her team. She went above and beyond the call of duty to get this escrow to close on time. This is a team you can trust to get the job done despite the road bumps.

They totally missed the easement registered on my property. It was not mentioned in the title report and really affected our plans of developing the property land. In addition, the easement by the neighbors had large ficus trees planted which would be destructive to my property, utilities and building. I come to find out about the easement when my neighbor told me about it while we were planning to put a fence and gate. How pathetic was that?. Took the joy out of us having to save all the money to buy this piece of property and come to bear the bad news. When I asked about this easement, they admitted that they have missed the easement on the report and passed me to the title insurance company (Insurance and report that I paid for upon closing of my escrow) Title Insurance company they associated with offered a small insulting fraction of the money which was less than I paid for the title insurance all together. This is the beauty of large corporations like them. Either way they win offering a small amount to settle the claims. Its like returning your any product in a retail store. They just give you less or about the same of what you have already paid for their services while purchasing the home. The loss is always faced by home buyer. I lost my money and part of my property as easement. For them, it is just a plain land however, for us it was totally restricting our future plans.

I worked with Margaret Kelley for the sale of my house. I could not have asked for a better experience. She was so quick to respond, super helpful and everything got taken care of quickly. I even had to reach out to her nearly 8 months after our sale was complete for copies of our documents along with some other information and she responded so quickly. I highly recommend working with her.

2 weeks into escrow and we still haven't received our net proceeds estimate. We requested this the day we started escrow. Still don't have it so we can't put a contingent offer on the home we want. Will update the review at the close of escrow to see if they step up their service with us.