Disinterested Third Party made slanderous comment

[Wltlsn]

What is the name of your state? Texas


My boyfriend is in the process of purchasing a house. Yesterday afternoon, we took a cashier's check to the title company arriving at their office at 5:02 PM to find the doors locked. (We had called ahead to notify them we were on our way and would be arriving around 5, and they told us they closed at 5, but if door was locked to slide envelope under the door.) We did EXACTLY what they told us to do, sliding envelope under door, making sure it went all the way under.

Guess what? Today they can't find the check. We have been leaving messages all day long, and no return calls. The Escrow officer (who is supposed to be a Disinterested Third Party (but handles lots of business for the seller) did call our agent, and made a comment about how my boyfriend was "mentally unstable" and said she wanted to introduce him to her husbands ex-wife, because they were both insane.

Nice huh??

Does he have any legal recourse against the title company itself for this remark?

Thanks!

 

[BelizeBreeze]

no. Now get on with finding the check.

 

[dallas702]

Forget the comment and the idiot who made it. Not only do you need to find that check, but you also need to make sure your account and other personal info isn't compromised.

It's gotta be in the hands of someone who works there, or a janitor who comes in to clean (although a janitor may have put it someplace he thought was safe).

I almost hate to ask this...when you slipped it under the door didn't it occur to you that it could be just as easily slipped out by using a coathanger or other "high tech" instrument? If I were in the purloinment business I'd be looking for envelopes inside doors of business offices every evening. Especially escrow or mortgage company offices.

Oh....a cashier's check. Dude, you're screwed.