Paul W. Frieary

Paul is the most unprofessional "don't give a $!#%" type of a layer. He screwed up every step of the buy-sell deal him and I were involved in, From putting together a contract with many mistakes all the way to not enforcing any part of the contract. Simple cash real estate transaction turned into 11 ...month to close and much of a headache for both seller and buyer. Lots of money lost due to his choices of not to get involved in any part of the deal besides cashing the check and I strongly recommend staying away from his services. No matter how inexpensive he claims to handle the deal for you. Very first thing is he is retired and doesn't come to the office or return any calls besides new customer inquiries and to collect payments. Once you pay him - he is no longer there, Stay away! Horrible professional with no professional etiquette and no desire to do anything past collecting your money!

I hired him to sell a property. He didn't give me a contract but orally informed me it was $1200. At the closing he asked for $1856. I asked why, He said "for disbursements" . I requested to know exactly what these services were and he was unable to provide an itemized list with receipts. He said I... signed a Power of Attorney and he charged me $250 for that. I asked other real estate lawyers how much that would be and was told is $75. He never had time to see me from May when I hired him till October when I had the closing. He was not prepared for the closing and made me wait one hour and a half after the closing was over. Everybody had left and he held me waiting for a check in the value of $110,000. I went to ask him about what money was due to me and what money I had to pay, but he refused to talk to me and threw me out of his office. I refused to leave because I wanted to take my money from selling the house. He screamed at me and insulted me and called me " a despicable" person. I should have sold the house earlier, but I couldn't because of him. He made me sign the contract and didn't inform me that the sellers were not ready for another 6 months. I found other buyers who wanted to pay more, but I was already tied to this contract. I lost a lot of money because of this . He should have informed me. Then the seller and their agent kept asking me to go to closing, but my attorney wasn't ready so it took another 8 days which cost me almost $1000 in interest and maintenance fees while the house was empty. I left his office in tears. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS