Owning your own home

We had similar. I just went back to the EA and showed them my quotes from other firms, which they then matched.
They were keen to keep everything under one roof, so to speak, and avoid multiple independent parties. So speed the whole thing up ours knocked c. £1200 off the total fees (we are buyers)

both spicerhaart and FJL are EA's so both their legal services teams are just in house divisions.

reviews of FJL on here:
https://www.allagents.co.uk/felicity-j-lord/
are ranging from amaze to rubbish. which suggest to me they are rubbish but have gotten people to add good reviews. from the above:
5 stars = 63 people
4 stars = 13 people
3 stars = 3
2 stars = 15
1 Stars = 124

that's quite a swing towards the bottom.

They often offer insurance to cover cases of non-completion and lost fees. I'd go with this option as you can then use your preferred/recommended solicitor.

Meh, if you have no chain then you can take your sweet time - up to a point :)

reviews of FJL on here:

https://www.allagents.co.uk/felicity-j-l­ord/
are ranging from amaze to rubbish. which suggest to me they are rubbish but have gotten people to add good reviews. from the above:

Reviews of all estate agents are typically on average awful because they include reviews from tenants who naturally / typically hate them. As do buyers to a lesser extent.

Yeah what Howard said, hard to get much from EA reviews on the internet.

They often offer insurance to cover cases of non-completion and lost fees. I'd go with this option as you can then use your preferred/recommended solicitor.

The solicitor offers the insurance?

Thats a very good point. While I am a renter I haven't had to deal with EA ever as I have a great landlord that I deal directly with.

The solicitor offers the insurance?

Yeah they charge you a bit extra but it insures you against the buyer wasting your time and whatnot.

I'd ask the indie to chuck it in for free if they want the the work TBH...

our non-complete clause was £35

our non-complete clause was £35

Yeah, sounds about the same as what I paid.

Glad I asked you guys, will go back to them and see what they say.

Finance unconditionally approved, signing the papers on Tuesday... Looks like we done boughted a house!!!

Noice! See you on the DIY thread....

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Come visit!!

And I'm too old for DIY... We bought a house that was as finished as possible so we wouldn't have any work to do... That said, I hate the nouveau 70s kitsch tiles in the kitchen, they're going... Even tho' Lori loves them... Fucking hideous...

Number of deadly snakes and spiders here = 0

Number of deadly snakes and spiders at yours > 1,000,000,000

Let me mull it over.......

Just like Spain....amirite?

My mum would love them, yeah...

Nice one fingers crossed it all goes smoothly, can you raise the house higher to get away from deadly Australia.

I'd love to see Joe trying to get up to bed in that place when he comes home pissed.

Well done, but leave the tiles, they are currently on trend and the height of hipster fashion.

any more pics, jose?

No lighthouse. No talk.