Dealing with a lawyer for eviction

[Ligaya Bales]

A lady I know who owns mutuple properties went to a lawyer for an eviction case of a resident who hadn't paid rent in months 

the lawyer charged her 1,500.00 for the initial fee and then also insisted she pay separate additional fees for the filing and serving charges (360.00 so far)

Im wondering if this is normal (are these fees supposed to be covered by the initial fee or is it normal for the client to have to pay all the additional fees for court and such?)

Not only that but the lawyer kept trying to make her meet with a realtor and kept offering to have someone buy her houses 

we feel like he is pushing his own agenda instead of persuing the eviction 

Also one day he showed us a "lease agreement" that the tenants gave him.. but there was no lease agreement and this paper he had only had their signatures on it (the tenants only and Not the owner) 

my opinion is that it's BS and obviously not a legit agreement; so why is he acting like it's legit? 

we feel like he is double crossing and assisting the person to stay longer instead of having them evicted asap 

they haven't paid rent in over five months and are insisting on staying past December and June 

its really getting on our nerves  

It's been 33 days now and the lawyer's office only filled the eviction with the court last week 

Is this normal or is this lawyer dude trying to string her along? 

the lady is elderly and I don't want to see her taken advantage of (I have to drive her to all her appointments because she's going blind and all this nonsense is really upsetting her) 

i guess my question is should we be concerned about this lawyer or are we over reacting? He just doesn't seem right to us but 😐 I don't really know anything about this stuff 

IDK if I should even post this but 😐

[Nathan Gesner]

The attorney is supervised by a state board. Contact them and file a complaint. I would also consider firing the attorney and hiring someone else immediately before this gets worse.