Law Office Of David Cohen

This guy is a TOTAL RIP OFF! He gave a price to commission documents, which was outlandish. However I was already in the office, so I negotiated with him. When it was all done he said ok, that will be $100 and has to be cash (can you say, not declaring to CRA?) That was twice what we negotiated, and he argued with me saying “I never said that”. I told him that it NOT what you said and we agreed.
Talk about the old bait and switch. At this point my documents had been signed and commissioned - what could I do?
Unethical!

0 communication. None of the required phone calls made. No follow up. No walk through the process. Went home EARLY and CLOSED the office on day of closing because it was a long weekend.

Close by and all paperwork was completed properly and done accordingly to have the paperwork files and close the deal

If I could just give "zero" stars on this man, I would but unfortunately, the review system would only accept a minimum of 1 star.
So I was there to have a document notarized. He called me in and I already had a feeling that this would not go very well. I filled out a portion of the document as I am not familiar with some terms and this guy just told me. "fill the form however you want, I'm not here to give you advice". Uh-oh, so I just walked out the door.

So I called Service Canada for the forms and luckily the rep told me that instead of public notary, Service Canada's registrar/clerk was able to commission the document for free.

But I won't ever go back to this lawyer ever! A terrible experience just for notary and what more with legal advices.

Handled the sale of our home, and the purchase of our new home. Everything was explained very well, gave us the confidence we needed to survive the whole real estate process with ease.

As a first time home buyer, he did nothing to teach me the process and the experience was TERRIBLE.
- He gave me the wrong hydro contact information.
- I didn't understand some of the paperwork and he just said "talk to your bank" he did not read through my file at all to help me.
- I had a family member as well come with me to ask a few questions. Yelled at her and told us to go to the bank to answer these questions
- I tried to take my time to read the 30 things I had to sign and said: "you don't have to read it, just sign it"
- Told me my file wont come in for 4 months even though it should have only taken at least one month.
- Part of the job of a lawyer is to make sure all documents are signed correctly, initial payments are completed etc. He check marked that I had property insurance. What he failed to mention was that was the CONDOS property insurance not mine. I had to do a few repairs from a minor flood and because he did not state that I was missing this, I had to pay $1000 out of my own pocket.

If you are an inexperienced homebuyer such as myself and need a good lawyer to walk you through the process. DO NOT GO TO DAVID. I made the mistake of hiring him because he had a cheaper price. I'd pay another $1K to not go through the process he made me go through.