Exorbitant lawyer fees

[Ana Vhan]

Hi BP community,

I have a tenant who has been quite non cooperative and I had to get a lawyers help in sending the tenant a notice for rent increase and draft a lease and upload to digital signature site for signatures. 

For the notice and the phone calls around the notice with him, (which I expected to be covered in one price) he charged me almost $600 as he said he goes by hour.

so for lease I confirmed with him beforehand that he will charge me $200. Now, he has charged me almost $800 for the lease. Instead of $200 which should again cover all the conversation between him and I about the lease draft, just for the draft prep he charged $399. Then reworking $177 because he missed my initial comments. Then the rest for any phone calls back and forth around the lease again because he kept missing certain points from the lease draft. 

I fee this is extortion. Is there any way to dispute this? 

Thanks,

Ana

[Chris Seveney]

Quote from @Ana Vhan:

Hi BP community,

I have a tenant who has been quite non cooperative and I had to get a lawyers help in sending the tenant a notice for rent increase and draft a lease and upload to digital signature site for signatures. 

For the notice and the phone calls around the notice with him, (which I expected to be covered in one price) he charged me almost $600 as he said he goes by hour.

so for lease I confirmed with him beforehand that he will charge me $200. Now, he has charged me almost $800 for the lease. Instead of $200 which should again cover all the conversation between him and I about the lease draft, just for the draft prep he charged $399. Then reworking $177 because he missed my initial comments. Then the rest for any phone calls back and forth around the lease again because he kept missing certain points from the lease draft. 

I fee this is extortion. Is there any way to dispute this? 

Thanks,

Ana

 What you did not include is how many phone calls and emails this took. Also for the lease how much customization did you do?

Lastly what is the attorneys hourly rate? 

Not enough information here but attorneys are expensive and if you are calling them and emailing them and they have to respond, they will charge you for that time.