Jennifer Lea MacGeorge

I contacted Jennifer for consultation in regards to a stressful situation with my leasing office. I had recently relocated for a job in the state of Texas, and was unaware of my rights as a tenant. Jennifer promptly advised my rights and steps to take in order to protect myself from the management te...am at my apartment complex. I appreciate how thorough and knowledgeable Jennifer is. Thank you Jennifer for helping me through a stressful move in a new state. I recommend using Jennifer and her firm for any legal needs with tenant-landlord issues.

Had a consultation with Jennifer regarding a dispute with my landlord, and she was extremely helpful! Walked through my case and options, with a completely honest, neutral perspective, and gave me a great road-map for what my options were. Even though it was a free consultation, I never once felt tha...t Jennifer was rushing to get me off the phone or pushing me to retain her.

I consulted with Jennifer when I was in danger of being evicted (this was pre-Covid-19). She is obviously a busy lady, I understand that, but did she have to be mobile through most of the consultation? I felt that I wasn't being given 100% of her attention. She did hammer home a point during the te...lephone call. She said it doesn't matter what is going on with me and my situation, if I am late or owe the landlord even one penny, they can evict me... so before I do anything, I needed to be current on rent. Thirty minutes went by super quick. Finishing up our conversation, she said she was going to do two things. The first was get back to me and the second was to speak with the insurance company that she would be billing for her time. She never called, emailed or used any other form of communication to get back in touch with me. Very disappointing and unprofessional. Upon talking to the insurance company, she never billed them for her time with me either. Not sure what happened or why, but I did end up getting the help that was needed.

BEWARE. They claim a free initial consultation but use the whole time asking you about the case you've already told them about in your initial filing with them they should have read before the call, and then they tell you they don't know about this and they don't know about that and then send you an... email to say email them if you have any questions. And when you do have another question, they then want to charge you $300ish for an hour consultation or almost $150 for a half hour. My case is unusual and not a cut and dry issue and so I thought that's why I was told I could email them with any questions. But when I emailed Scarlett and told her that I had no problem paying to speak to her, but I certainly didn't want to pay if she was going to tell me she didn't know about anything, I got no response. Absolute crickets chirping So this seems more than a bit scammy. I would have definitely been upset had I paid for the initial consultation, as it was absolutely not worth $139 or whatever the charge and certainly not $300! I had to even ask things from my own research - so instead of them saying "you can file contempt motions", I had to ask can I file a motion for contempt to which she said "you can try". And the judge is hearing the motion I filed, but that is from MY research and MY work! I'm not even certain they would have even thought of it had I not brought it up! Just be a good person and do the right thing! I thought because of her personal story of having landlord issues herself, they wouldn't act like this. Don't offer an initial free consultation if it's not going to be an initial free consultation! Just say right up front you're charging. I understand people need to make a living, however I do a LOT of work for free just to be a good member of society. And I always try to help someone as much as I can. I even asked them if they wanted to help me sue this guy and his insurance company, where I'm sure they could make a lot more money in a settlement than just simple evictions, and of course I did say I would pay her, but I need to get something worthwhile out of it. I am so sick of professionals getting paid no matter what for incompetent or no work. Lawyers here, who seem to not want to work for justice, but just want to take easy cases where they can do minimal work and get paid exorbitant amounts, and doctors are notorious for it. Doctors can treat you terribly and misdiagnose you and they still get paid. I wish I could be wrong in my job all the time and still get paid. The whole thing is outrageous. ChatGPT is coming for your jobs and clearly it is deserved. It has been FAR more helpful (not perfect right now, you still have to manage it). Oh, and FREE. I prevailed in the writ, won the eviction and now the contempt charges. So I guess...karma? You guys should have been more ethical (which you swear an oath to do) and better members of civil society.