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Matthew Dodrill
  • Investor
  • West Virginia
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Lawyer stole my deal what are my options?

Matthew Dodrill
  • Investor
  • West Virginia
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Here's a semi short version of what happened.

My family owns a few properties in town we received a phone call from a woman asking if we had any availability unfortunately at the time we did not but to be curious a little bit we asked why she needed to move. She stated that her landlord was shutting down and needed to find a new place so we asked what her landlord was. After getting the information we found out that the landlord that was shutting down was actually purchasing a motel on land contract. I then looked up the owners and contacted them unfortunately the original owner had died and it had passed to his sons. I reached out to them via email and then on voice chat we talked about how land contracts worked being they were out of state and following along with what their father had done before them. I sent them three versions of contracts they selected one we had agreed on all terms and conditions everything except for actually signing the contract. They stated that they wanted to send it to a lawyer just to have it verified and then we would proceed. They happen to pick a lawyer locally in town that has a conflict of interest. After all said and done the brothers then tell me to contact the lawyer to get the details. I contacted the lawyer the lawyer stated that the property was not for sale and never would be. Time passes a new quick claim deed is passed to a new LLC to which the founders of the LLC is one brother and the lawyer. I have all documentation from text messages emails and recorded phone calls all up to agreeing with everything and along with the lawyer stating that there was a conflict of interest. I feel the lawyer stole my work and deal. Is their anything I can do? I did incur damages as to buying locks for all the doors and the bothers asked to buy them off of me but then cut all communication.

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