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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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I do think you get what you pay for with the legal mob. If you choose a solicitor based on a promise to to the job on a fixed low price, you can bet you’ll be dealing with an overworked junior most of the way. I had a paralegal that couldn’t spell, and who was evidently stressed and unsupported. She ended up going off sick and then no one would return my calls. Fortunately this wasn’t for a house purchase. I sacked them in the end. The admin was the only person who took my calls and she told me the partner was in a meeting with the legal ombudsman at one point, which says a lot.
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Thanks, that sounds like good advice.
Unfortunately I don't currently have the details of the seller's solicitors, but I guess I could ask my solicitor for that?
The seller's crap solicitors don't have law in the title, standards must be slipping.
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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?