MBH Settlement Group

Four stars for the settlement lawyer, one for the support staff.
«Meh, I’ve experienced better» is technically inaccurate. Having just bought my first house, I’ve never experienced another settlement company. For all I know, having to wait 90 minutes for your scheduled appointment is a typical experience, as is having the assistant misspell your surname on every single piece of preliminary paperwork (not just misspell it, but spell it as the noun it closely resembles– one of the smelliest vegetables commercially available – thereby bringing back thousands of repressed schoolyard memories). Then, after correcting that, arriving at settlement to discover you’ve now been anointed «Mrs. Anna Fianceslastname» on the legal contracts, which is not even going to be your legal name when you get married.
Lest you think I am a high-​strung humorless spelling sadist, which I so am, this shizz is about more than just the letters. On legal paperwork, misspelled and inaccurate names can throw the whole legal status of the contract into question. Our horrified settlement lawyer (who was really good, by the way) made us manually correct every error and initial it, and even then he said we might have to come back and re-​sign proper paperwork. Which we didn’t, yay.
Spelling in correspondence is less important, meaning I *am* a jerk to point this out, but here’s what was misspelled in emails: the sellers’ last names; the real estate agents’ last names; pretty much every proper noun. There was free Diet Coke and candy at the office, so yay for that, but also we wrote a check to the assistant for a fee we needed to cover, and yesterday I got a call that she had sent the check back to us by mistake because of a «math error» but now she realized we really did owe them that money and could we please mail the check back when we get it. Which we haven’t yet.
Basically, disorganization stretched our settlement from a 15-​minute nonevent to a multiweek labyrinth. Meh.