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Cazakstan
Currently feeling very frustrated at our conveyancing situation!
Our seller's solicitors continue to be shit and slow. I got them to finally send over our Grant of Probate and responses to further enquiries by emailing the seller's agent suggesting that their client makes a complaint to their solicitors because their service is falling way below reasonable expectations, attached a copy of their complaints procedure and copied in their solicitor.
Low and behold this resulted in this stuff being sent over later that day - clearly not coincidence - but since then we've been waiting for them to send over further responses to enquiries and they've told the agent at least once that they have but our solicitor hasn't received them.
The seller's agent is actually being really helpful - makes sense, she's got more to lose than the solicitors. She was asked by the seller's solicitors to ask us not to do that again (lol) but told us she thought it was a good tactic. She has now suggested that we set a deadline for exchange to focus minds as the next step, and reduce our offer if exchange doesn't happen by that date. She has already told the seller that she doesn't think she'd get the same price again now.
However, due to previous performance from the other side and their solicitors, our solicitor doesn't want to commit to a timeframe beyond urging for replies to be sent to her urgently.
I appreciate her caution and I know it's not her job to advise on tactics, but if she doesn't give us some idea I'm flying blind and I don't want to burden her with an unworkable deadline.
So I'm starting to get annoyed with her now, especially as she's normally very responsive but seems to have gone quiet at my suggestion that we discuss this.
Thoughts?