Marc William Miller

We used Mark several years ago for a house purchase. He was recommended by my husbands office. It was difficult to get a hold of him and most times ended up speaking with his staff who were wonderful. The afternoon before the sale I get a call that there is money owed on the bill that needs to be fi...gured out before the sale the next day. I was out of town stuck in a hotel room and my husband was busy at work until late. After telling us that if this can’t be figured out the sale will be delayed I got furious. This man’s advice on buying a home caused us to lose the sale because we added stipulations for negotiation purposes that the seller declined and put the house back on the market. The second home had its issues with the sale but we were desperate and didn’t want to lose this house too. Overall I had problems with his lack of transparency and the fact he dropped a bomb the day before a sale saying we owed him an additional $8,000 dollars when he never provided any warning or documentation for the bill. It was pay up or you don’t get the house. Im surprised he is still allowed to practice.

Our experience with Marc Miller as the buyer’s attorney for our home was a regrettable one. He lured me in by establishing a connection during our initial call and after that it was his assistant who handled all the processes related to the sale. She was competent but totally on rote as if referri...ng to a manual during the entire process. The couple of times that I saw Marc at the office he seemed more interested in speaking about his antique collection than about the closing. The closing came with many surprises in terms of extra costs that we were not warned about. One was that we had to pay for the remaining oil in the oil tank. We had no interest in the oil tank as we were going to convert to an electrical heating system but we’re not given the choice to say no. Basically it was sign here and take out your check book. Marc should have outlined for us everything prior to the closing which he did not. It seemed that cozying up to the sellers lawyer was more important.

When I bought my first home, I hired Marc Miller to be my attorney. The crooked seller did the final walk-through with me before closing. My buyer's agent/realtor with Blue Moon Realty (in High Falls, NY) should've been there, but she chickened out because it was raining. She made sure to show up at ...the closing later that morning to get paid, that's for sure. During the walk-through, the seller quickly turned on and off the thermostat; just long enough for me to hear the heat kick on. Then she turned the thermostat back off quickly, saying something about conserving fuel. Convinced that there were no problems, I went to the closing. Afterwards, I returned to my new house, and turned up the thermostat. Huge plumes of black smoke and carbon monoxide came out of the vents. The heat exchanger had broken. I had to suddenly had to come up with $6,500 for a new furnace - after spending nearly everything that I had to buy the house. I called my real Marc. He wasn't in the office so I left a message. Marc blew me off and wouldn't return calls or emails for two weeks. I finally called again and got him on the phone. He told me that because I didn't "catch" the furnace problem at the home inspection, or during the final walk-through, that it was "my red wagon", as he put it. The seller had fraudulently covered up the problem, and my home inspection had been done two weeks prior, when there wasn't a problem (yet) with the furnace. Marc Miller lied online and said that I never was his client, he's full of it. He doesn't care because he got this money at the closing and doesn't want anyone to know that he screwed me over. There was plenty that he could've done to have my back. He completely blew me off and dismissed me. It turns out that Marc has a poor reputation among the locals. He cares about closing the deal and making a fast buck, that’s all.

Marc and his terrific team made the process of buying our first home (in an area where we were not locals) so stress-free that it almost made us nervous! I kept thinking "this seems almost too easy... are we supposed to be doing more?" Everyone was responsive (without being overbearing), effici...ent, effective, kind, helpful, and even *fun*. Absolutely recommend without hesitation.