James Blendell

I had this law firm do a closing on a 3 unit rental property I owned in Troy. Jim Blendell was the lawyer. The closing date was 7/6/17. The loan didn't actually get paid off until 7/20/17! Whoever was in charge of writing out the pay off check, wrote in "aurora bank" instead of the correct "nationst...ar bank". Our lawyer who we paid almost $500 for a few hours "work", didn't bother looking over the check and it was sent in error to our bank. The bank sent it back and then 2 full weeks later (after much complaining by me) the title company finally issued another check to the correct bank. In those 2 weeks, we incurred a late fee and a credit ding AND Nationstar mortgage company disbursed $699.99 in property takes on 7/12/17)! So, we paid the new owners property tax. I emailed and called Jim Blendell but got no response. I emailed a second time and he basically said that the city of Troy would send the $699.99 back to the mortgage company and then Nationstar would send it to us. I knew that was HOGWASH. I called the treasurer and the comptroller of Troy and was told that my lawyer needed to get involved to get the $699.99 back. They would not just I called Jim Blendell again and let him know this and he gave me a nasty attitude and would not help me. He got his money at the closing 2 weeks ago so he evidently felt no need to right the wrongs his mistakes had created. As of this date, 7/31/17 I have not heard from Lecce arcodia law firm of the lawyer jim blendell. No one ever apologized for their complete screw up of this closing AND I had to pay a late fee because of their ineptness. Please please please, if you have a real estate closing DO NOT USE lecce arcodia. Find another law firm. There are many in the capitol region.