Legal Question in Real Estate Law in New Jersey

Legal fee

Hi,

We bought a house and leased it back for 6 months.

At closing, paid the attorney fee and learned that the attorney who handled our case was leaving.

Another attorney will handle any issue in the leasing back period.

The new attorney has called and send letters to the seller's attorney since the seller did not pay the rental on time for the first 4 months.

Two months before the end of the lease back, we had to visited the seller in person to get the check, but the check we got was bounced back.We had to managed got a bank check by ourselves.

Finally, we moved into the house and found lots of damages.

So we asked the attorney as our representative for a litigation, he refused and stated that he was material witness.

Instead, he sent us a bill for the letters and phones calls.

The total charge is about $1,800. He even started to charge us 18% annual interest after few months.

When we went to the court and settled the house damages,

we found that the new attorney failed to tell us that the seller's attorney once agreed to release the part of money in the escrow account for the damages of the house.

Should we disregard the attorney bill letters or initiate the fee arbitration process?

Thanks,

Yolanda

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