Reviews

Maria Gesualdi came to us recommended by a friend. We didn’t even think of reading reviews or researching further and hired her to help us with our first home purchase. The red flags were there from the very beginning, took days to respond to an email, forgetting to copy both my husband and I on important communication, failure to keep us up to date on the process. We had to conduct all business virtually because of Covid so the anxiety kicked in immediately when we noticed the lack of basic client service she conducted her business with. Maria recommended we request all defects that came back from inspection to be fixed or consider cancelling the contract for a house we put an offer on, the result of this recommendation was $20K+ dollars frozen in ESCROW for over 6 months as the seller held us in breach of contract. During those 6 months it took sweat and blood to get a hold of Maria. We didn’t hear from her for weeks at a time. Four months later she finally responded with a court claim to recover our funds, we have no proof or guarantee that claim was ever submitted or real as nothing really happened. I personally had to follow the process of the seller closing with someone else, and dig through other contacts to find out the details of their new attorney so I could call him and have him agree to the release of our funds. Where was Maria during all this? I’m still asking myself that question. When I spoke with the attorney’s office and they said they had no issue with the release, I called Maria. She laughed at my face and condescendingly called me honey (many times) as she tried to infer I was out of my mind and what I was saying wasn’t true. Keep in mind the money was in Maria’s power, it had been all that time. When I finally got them to talk to each other and Maria announced she was sending our money back, not only did she send a check for the incorrect amount, she also deducted her fees without consulting with us for a second. Yes, we are aware attorneys charge for their work (if you can consider her performance work at all); but the basic decency of discussing this prior to just taking the money is something you would expect from someone you hired to represent your interests. I’m not sure to this minute how Maria is in business. Please READ REVIEWS, even when people come recommended. During the 6 months our money was frozen, we lost several opportunities to become home owners and saw interest rates rise before our eyes with nothing to be done. To this day we still rent and are a few thousand dollars short because of the unfortunate decision of hiring Maria Gesualdi.

Maria Gesualdi came to us recommended by a friend. We didn’t even think of reading reviews or researching further and hired her to help us with our first home purchase. The red flags were there from the very beginning, took days to respond to an email, forgetting to copy both my husband and I on important communication, failure to keep us up to date on the process. We had to conduct all business virtually because of Covid so the anxiety kicked in immediately when we noticed the lack of basic client service she conducted her business with. Maria recommended we request all defects that came back from inspection to be fixed or consider cancelling the contract for a house we put an offer on, the result of this recommendation was $20K+ dollars frozen in ESCROW for over 6 months as the seller held us in breach of contract. During those 6 months it took sweat and blood to get a hold of Maria. We didn’t hear from her for weeks at a time. Four months later she finally responded with a court claim to recover our funds, we have no proof or guarantee that claim was ever submitted or real as nothing really happened. I personally had to follow the process of the seller closing with someone else, and dig through other contacts to find out the details of their new attorney so I could call him and have him agree to the release of our funds. Where was Maria during all this? I’m still asking myself that question. When I spoke with the attorney’s office and they said they had no issue with the release, I called Maria. She laughed at my face and condescendingly called me honey (many times) as she tried to infer I was out of my mind and what I was saying wasn’t true. Keep in mind the money was in Maria’s power, it had been all that time. When I finally got them to talk to each other and Maria announced she was sending our money back, not only did she send a check for the incorrect amount, she also deducted her fees without consulting with us for a second. Yes, we are aware attorneys charge for their work (if you can consider her performance work at all); but the basic decency of discussing this prior to just taking the money is something you would expect from someone you hired to represent your interests. I’m not sure to this minute how Maria is in business. Please READ REVIEWS, even when people come recommended. During the 6 months our money was frozen, we lost several opportunities to become home owners and saw interest rates rise before our eyes with nothing to be done. To this day we still rent and are a few thousand dollars short because of the unfortunate decision of hiring Maria Gesualdi.

Poor maria let's cut her a break people!!! I don't think is true that they steal money!!! Overall good 👍 person to talk to

Very professional. Very helpful.

Best out door dining in area.

No follow through and lack of professionalism through and through.

I'm absolutely dumbfounded at the lack of urgency and the unprofessionalism this firm had in our attempt to buy a house. There was extremely little communication from them. We would email a question and not receive a response for days. When we would finally call to get an update, they reply with "what was your question?" I'm glad we ended up retracting our offer, they don't deserve a penny of ours. Even calls to the office were never returned, I had to constantly call them just to get a call back from the paralegal. The unprofessionalism goes down to the gentleman answering the phones. I would say, "thank you" and rather than hearing, "you're welcome" or "no problem, have a nice day." I hear a grunt of some sort. Like, "mmm" or "uh huh." Unfortunately, this firm was a referral from our realtor and that is not a good look for our realtor. I would scratch them off the list of attorneys to work with. I should've known something was off from the first meeting my wife had with Maria. She ended up giving my wife a pat on her rear, like if this was a sport. Sadly, our experience won't sway everyone but believe me, just Google search one more attorney please. Any firm should be a notch above the Gesualdi office.

Maria is the best of the best.I have been working with Maria close to 20 years. Not only is Maria Gesualdi my real estate team exclusive attorney for all our clients, but she is my personal attorney as well. She is always willing to go the extra mile, and can be reached after hours which has saved many of our deals throughout the years. Hands down the only attorney to go with in the area.

Handled our client closings and all parties were very pleased with the work!!!

I very much wanted to write a good review for Maria, but I simply can not. After waiting more than 3 months to submit an application to my real estate matter I finally disengaged with her. She is a very nice person, but she needs to pay more attention to her clients and listen to their feedback. The biggest problem was the lack of returned phone calls and non response to emails. In fact I never received an email response from her or the office. Her staff constantly took the heat from me for not getting back to me with any update to my real estate matter. I would recommend those who are looking to go through a legal matter look for other legal representation.