James J. McDonald

I hired Jim McDonald to purchase a house in Montclair. During the process, Jim and his assistant hardly ever returned phone calls and emails and were difficult to reach. But most importantly, I would never hire Jim because his firm's email system was compromised by a hacker during my wife's and I ...house purchase. Long story short, but we were a victim of wire fraud from someone posing as Jim's assistant. Jim did not help us recover our down payment, denied any fault, and even blamed us. Luckily, we worked with the FBI, Secret Service and the NY General Attorney's office to recover most of the funds. I would definitely not trust working with Jim because of their compromised email systems. There are many real estate law firms that do the same work. It's not worth the risk to work with Jim's firm with your precious life savings.