Typical 1031 QI experience?

[John Cho]

I am partially through my first 1031 exchange and I have to say I found the QI I used to be thoroughly underwhelming and not worth the 1k I paid for the service.  

I received no advice at any time during the identification period except a generic form letter just stating dates and deadlines.  No discussion about potential mortgage boots or looking at alternative backup strategies like DSTs to salvage the exchange.

For a service that essentially just collects, wires money and pushes papers electronically, the company I used doesn't even use Docusign and asked me to print, sign papers and rescan them.  It's baffling to me why the fees are so high or maybe I just picked a terrible QI.  If I were to select again, I think I would have just gone with the lowest cost provider.