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Similarly when we closed on our last house I noticed they messed up the math on the closing paperwork and my final mortgage payment wasn’t updated to current.
by croutonwagon 5y ago
Similarly when we closed on our last house I noticed they messed up the math on the closing paperwork and my final mortgage payment wasn’t updated to current.
I mentioned this multiple times and they got nasty with me and told me I’m wasting my and everyone’s time reading the paperwork and it’s all boilerplate. And it’s never wrong. Especially the math. It’s what they do for a living, yadda yadda.
I just shut up and signed the closing agreement. Escrow closed and they paid me an extra couple thousand.
A few months later they called me…at 7:30 am to ask for the money. I told them they had title insurance and file a claim. Then came the sob stories. I told them my time isn’t free and I’m gonna have to spend some time to pull the paperwork, rerun the math etc.
In the end I gave them half back. Told them I deducted my hourly rate I 1099 others. That if they really wanted it they could take me to small claims. Never heard from them again.
And now I tell every person that mentions buying a house not to use that title company.
- xwdv 5y agoI wish you hadn’t given anything back. Let them fry.
- danuker 5y agoShould have started with the small claims argument, if they had not respected their contract.
- xwdv 5y agoGenuine opportunities to skewer arrogant fucks are so rare I don’t know why people would bother being so diplomatic, I would have thrown the contract in their face and reminded them repeatedly of what he told them before. He owes them nothing. Let them sob and fight as hard as possible while wasting time and effort to correct their own mistake.
- croutonwagon 5y agoI could have and would be a lie if I said I hadn’t considered it. But realistically it wasn’t my money, incompetence or not. Regardless of the sim it was a mora issue more than monetary.