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MM Lovers
Dear all,
I am currently having this problem and would like to seek your opinion and share your experience in dealing with this situation:
The story goes:
I sold one of my property and bought another one concurrently. I engaged the same lawyer to act for both cases. The legal fee was verbally agreed to be around $1,000 plus for both cases. The selling part was completed successfully and the legal fee was only $1,300 plus. As we are buying an under construction property, the process is longer as it is under progressive payment. Midway through the process, the lawyer retired and the case was passed to her colleague. The progressive payment has reached the stage where the bank loan kicks in and the lawyer has sent us their bill. Their legal fee and disbursements added to be $6,000 plus. Our property price is $1.06 million. I am stunned by the amount. I have tried calling them to reduce the fee and they only reduce $500. I have tried calling the retired lawyer but she did not answer my phone or sms.
Are we being overcharged? We feel that we have being overcharged. The past lawyers that I have engaged did not charge more than $2,000. What can we do to seek redress of this problem? Any members faced such a situation before? please help. Thanks.