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Is there anything else we can do?
Is this something that could be covered in an indemnity policy?
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I'm in a similar boat. Our offer was accepted at the beginning of September and the vendor's solicitor is only just now responding to enquiries that were raised in October. Our own solicitor is also rubbish, which is compounding things - why did we only just find out that their enquiries from Oct. hadn't been responded to?!
Our next step is going to be to imply that we're thinking about pulling out from the deal if they delay any longer, and hopefully that will hurry them along as they are part of an onward chain.
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No advice other than it seems conveyancers have taken on way more work than they can process.
One of my friends had arranged a 4 property chain to exchange tomorrow and complete next friday last week, but their solicitors came back this morning (the day before) to say they have over 30 exchanges and completions tomorrow and cannot accommodate them.
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Frozen sausages?
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I took to copying in my solicitors, the buyer’s solicitors and the estate agent on every communication because then no fucker could claim thy hadn’t been informed about X or Y.
Seemed to wake up the buyer’s mob.I expressed my frustration about the buyer’s solicitors to a contract lawyer friend and she said “do they have ‘law’ in their name?”
So to give yourself a better chance of not having a crappy factory conveyancer, avoid any firm with ‘law’ in their name.
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Other people's conveyancing solicitors... FFS.
Our buyer's solicitors are really on it but our vendor's haven't managed to get the grant of probate to our solicitors yet despite it being granted two and a half weeks ago. They haven't answered our solicitor's enquiries yet either and some go all the way back to December.
Our solicitor suggested being put into an email chain with their agent and she's doing a good job of going into battle, but we need the vendor's to put pressure on their solicitor.
If we don't meet the stamp duty deadline we're going to lose £15k because of their crap solicitors and obviously I don't see why we should pick that up, so if things don't get better in a few days I will be asking the agent to relay that thought to the vendor.
Is there anything else we can do?