Which HIP pack provider?

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matthewh wrote: »

As I have said many times - do it yourself.
It really is easy and instructions can be found online - google it.
Phone up and book an EPC - haggle the price down - a lot are desperate for work.
Searches (Water and Local Authority) can be booked online, Land registry is merely sending a downloaded form back to them.
You will then be able to put your HIP together with Local Authority searches (rather than the inferior - requiring insurance - personal searches that you will get with ALL the cheap providers).
You will also not be tied to expensive conveyancing!
I did mine for £205 inc vat

Budget-hips are currently advertising £178+vat. (I paid less than that) Plus they have high indemnity insurance cover against getting it wrong.

Admittedly only a saving of 30pence over your DIY cost, but did you have costs involved like petrol and postage etc?

TheMiner wrote: »

Bit new to this game (first time seller) - but I've been quoted £204 by Hips4u - am I missing something??

If that includes VAT then you’re doing okay.

ClaudiaC_3

we used hips4u and they were great, they give you a link on line and you can printt off your own copies or just send the link to EA and your solicitors, a lot faster than waiting for snail mail.

the seller we're buying from used their solicitor and I am sure they paid a lot more money and there is a fundamental mistake in the energy report, where they didn't pick up that the house is fully double glazed. I would have complained but as someone pointed out WHO actually looks and reads throught these?!!!
They make incredibly boring reading.


One word of warning: if Hips4U offers you to pay a holding fee of £20 to pass your details to a solicitor who will let you pay a heavily diso!!!! price (they had an offer going when I used them), and you want to avail of the offer, do check what solicitor they pass you on as I have had a NIGHTMARE experience with the one they allocated us.
If you pm me I will give you the details of the solicitor to avoid.
Although after I complained a few times to the Senior partner the new solicitor assisting us is doing a great job.

Hips4U have various solicitors to pass you on and I have let them know of the bad experience I had with these.

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ClaudiaC wrote: »

…One word of warning: if Hips4U offers you to pay a holding fee of £20 to pass your details to a solicitor who will let you pay a heavily diso!!!! price (they had an offer going when I used them), and you want to avail of the offer, do check what solicitor they pass you on as I have had a NIGHTMARE experience with the one they allocated us…
…Hips4U have various solicitors to pass you on and I have let them know of the bad experience I had with these.

Nightmare experiences with solicitors are just all too common nowadays.

I remember when professional people had moral fibre and principles.

a solicitor who will let you pay a heavily diso!!!! Price…

Not for people in S!!!!horpe though, I suspect!

gemmalouanna

Booked it via My hip home this morning - the energy assessor has been round this evening so a nice quick start

john_m_craig

Like everything else you get what you pay for. I bought my HIP from Full HIP which as the name suggests gave me a full service. What I liked was all the info they provide on their web site and you can request a detailed HIP guide compiled by the company. You can also request a quote via a site form. Another worthwhile bonus is that they are one of the few HIP Pack companies where you don’t have to pay up front. You pay after they have provided the initial part of the HIP which allows you to start selling your property. If you pay up front and the marketing part of the HIP doesn’t materialise for weeks then you are out of pocket while not being able to legally market your property. I didn’t think it was worth the risk. This way, if they don’t deliver, they don’t get paid – a rather good incentive to deliver quickly I thought

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You don’t have to look far on here to find that loads of people are happy with the cheaper end of the HIP market.

Expressions like ‘you get what you pay for’ really don’t hold true nowadays do they? If so why does MSE exist?

1) What does ‘the marketing part of the HIP’ mean?

2) How much was your ‘full HIP’ John?

3) How is it better than my HIP? (£171.35 incl. VAT)

david29dpo

Now i see. The end.