I'm buying a house, no chain my side, no chain the seller's side. So, all straightforward? Well, yes, on paper, but to date it's taken over 4 months and still no completion date in sight.
From what my solicitor is telling me, the seller has gone with an internet outfit, emails she is sending are taking a couple of weeks to get replies (along with chasing phone calls) and still the details asked for - standard stuff - are only coming in dribs and drabs.
There's not a lot of point to this thread, I know it takes time, but I felt the need to vent virtually, as my real world circle are fed up hearing about it...
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Vent away, this is the Internet!
Trouble with internet solicitors is if they're rubbish and you post a bad review somewhere, they know where they live and how to make your life a misery!
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Long chain too.
It was a PITA and my mobile bill was enormous but it can be done.
Just get in their face and make sure they know they won't be able to get away with pissing you about.
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But yes, do get your own solicitor, not a legal call centre,
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My experience of house buying a selling:
If you don't want to murder the people you selling to and buying from and their respective solicitors and estate agents, and your own as well, then you have been very lucky.
Anyway, the patio I put down just after moving in is still looking great.
This is exactly why I chose a solicitor in my home town, I email/phone/pop in very regularly so as to keep on her radar, for her part she does chase the other side regularly.....the internet muppets!
A lot of the holdups are at the Land Registry though. Getting slower all the time and apparently going to be privatised. The LR is a vital part of debt recovery in large disputes so if they are privately owned I hate to think what their fee structure is going to be like.
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Not a big chain for us- we had a BTL'er buying ours, with a local conveyancer with a reputation for being slow. We had a mid-market solicitor who acted like she was ECHR barrister who was just far to important to deal with anything and our seller who was moving into rented with an internet legal call centre bullshite and his divorcee wife who had a mid market solicitor in buttfuck Nowhereshire miles from the rest. Had time not been such a pressing issue we would have cut our losses with our legal bint but every second counted. We also had the same estate agent.
It still took 4 months and right up to the deadline where it was move or bust.
The most astonishing thing is that every time ISIS or AQ machine gun a high street is that they somehow miss all of the estate agents & conveyancers and nail waitresses and shop staff instead. Maybe it's all part of their M.O. to leave us with these blood sucking parasites.
I ended up doing in the last month, what the seller's solicitors should've done in the preceding 4 months. Cunts. I know people say flippantly that solicitors don't do anything for their money, but this shower of shit literally did nothing.
One of the non local ones was ringing me and emailing at nearly 8 at night and pulled out all the stops to get a deal done when it was about to go tits up.
Another time though I got a fairly local solicitor who was some genial old fart. HE held stuff up for us (in our completely chain free transaction) by being uninformative and too backwards in coming forwards. The fact he probably thought e-mail was a communist plot to overthrow the country didn't help either. This was about 2002, when granted not eveyone had gone over to it, but by God folks were realising it was pretty darned good for business. I think he though the phone was a bit of a new fangled device. My least favourite part of that transaction was when everything went quiet for a few weeks. Turns out he'd bugered off on holiday to do a spot of Salmon fishing, hadn't told us and hadn't arranged cover either.
You should have to get together a basic pack of required information before you're allowed to accept an offer.