My wife and I were first-time home buyers and used the Law Offices of Scott D. Kriss when buying our house via a short sale. Overall our experience using this law firm was poor. The purchase and sale agreement was obviously drafted too quickly and without any sort of proofreading. There were many spelling mistakes, our current address was incorrect, and the total purchase price was wrong by a factor of 1,000 ($233 million instead of $233,000 -- ouch!). After everything was worked out, he apologized and offered to waive his fee for the preparation of this document. We were pleased with this resolution and took him at his word that there would be no further complications. However, when it came time to close, the HUD statement was incorrect and was given to us with only 2 hours to spare before the closing. His communication with our mortgage broker was nonexistent so there were many problems relating to our mortgage details on the HUD. The attorney present at our closing was someone I had never met or interacted with before that day and he understandably had no knowledge of the prior difficulties we had encountered with our transaction. In addition, Scott Kriss would not return phone calls. When he was in his office (which was rarely) I could typically reach him at his desk phone, but I asked him a dozen or more times via email to call me and I never once got a call back. On one occasion he did reply to one of my emails and told me he'd call me the following morning, but he never did; I had to call him. I would not recommend the Law Offices of Scott D. Kriss. If you use their services, anticipate having to review everything they produce and staying on top of them to get things done correctly and in a timely manner.
Pros: Refunded some of their fees after messing up
Cons: Everything else
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