Super stressed with solicitor

ThriftyWanabee

:mad: Okay, can anyone please offer me any advice as this is the first time I've sold a house and bought a new one...people aren't joking when they say moving is stressful!!

Basically, our solicitor sent us all the final paperwork, transfer deeds etc on Tuesday this week (we are hoping to move on 11th Feb), I got them in the morning post and noticed as soon as I looked at them that my name was wrong on all the documents!!

I called the solicitor who said she'd amend them and e-mail them to be by the afternoon. She didn't e-mail them til yesterday morning :mad:. My partner works 80 miles away and isn't home in the week so I drove to her where she's staying to give the documents to her to read over thinking we could sign them together on Friday night and post them Saturday. She called me last night to say that one of the documents still has the wrong name on!!! :mad:

It's now Thursday and I don't see how we're going to get the right documents signed and returned before Monday or Tuesday :mad:. Until we know that are moving date is 100% confirmed as the 11th we can't book a removal guy!! Can anyone give me any advise please...are things always so last minute? I assumed we'd have a concrete moving date at least a week in advance.

bandofbrothers

Hi,

I concur with your outlook on selling and buying !

My property has been on the market for a little under 2 years with several failed attempts at selling.

My situation is a little different as im not selling to buy another home ,as its an empty property.
My completion date is next week too and am busy sorting out the final bills and solicitors paperwork.

The stress at just selling is bad enough !

But having to arrange moving the contents of a home is something i personally would not want to contemplate. My heart goes out to you and good luck.

This site is really good as users with experiance steer you well and generally give good advice and tips.

sooz

Breathe.....

You said you are seeing your partner on Friday & didn't plan to return docs til Monday.

Call the solicitor. See if you can amend the one mis spelling and initial it. If not, get her to re email you the ONE wrong page now. No need to drive 80 miles again. Email it to your partner, check it yourself or wait til your partner gets back home on Friday.

Sign, put in post special delivery. then sit down with a large drink

ThriftyWanabee

sooz wrote: »

Breathe.....

You said you are seeing your partner on Friday & didn't plan to return docs til Monday.

Call the solicitor. See if you can amend the one mis spelling and initial it. If not, get her to re email you the ONE wrong page now. No need to drive 80 miles again. Email it to your partner, check it yourself or wait til your partner gets back home on Friday.

Sign, put in post special delivery. then sit down with a large drink

Thanks, I really do need to sit down with a drink! :beer:
I e-mailed the solicitor last night to advise her we still had a wrong page, just hope she's a bit quicker off the mark than last time and gets it e-mailed to me.

I just can't believe we're supposedly moving a week tomorrow but still haven't got definite confirmation of this, it's making it hard to arrange things.

sooz

I know it's stressful, but try to keep calm.

Call the solicitor this morning & get her to resend the page asap. Perhaps whilst still on the phone to you.

Get onto the removals co & book a provisional date. Let them know it's subject to exchange and see what they say about moving the date, if necessary. They too are used to stressed people & last minute delays

flora48

I had a similar experience having booked a complete packing removal service. the cancellation fees were hefty, about 70% if i remember rightly. I was able to take a cancellation waiver with removal company for £56, money well spent as I ended up postponing my move 10 mins before the close of business on the afternoon before the planned move. Make you sure you ask these questions before you book anything. Good luck,

AnnaV

If the wrong name issue causes you any costs, let the solicitor know and ask for them to be deducted once you have completed. If they disagree, raise the issue with the SRA.

rosyw

I had a similar situation, everything very last minute, I spoke to the removal company and paid my deposit and "provisionally" booked the date, luckily they were very easy to deal with as I had to change it twice and in the end had 48 hours to pack and move!:eek: removal folks were brilliant, we exchanged contracts late Wedsneday, they arrived 7.30 am Thursday and started to pack and load, and by 4pm Friday it was all done and in the new place! It was VERY stressful, but if your removal people are as helpful as mine were you'll be OK, they deal with these situations all the time Good luck!

timmyt

ThriftyWanabee wrote: »

:mad: Okay, can anyone please offer me any advice as this is the first time I've sold a house and bought a new one...people aren't joking when they say moving is stressful!!

Basically, our solicitor STOP calling them a solicitor....you won't have an actual solicitor. you rarely get a solicitor for your money. YOu don't realise until you are paying them the same as if you were. And good luck with the quality of conveyancing you receive too. sent us all the final paperwork, transfer deeds etc on Tuesday this week (we are hoping to move on 11th Feb), I got them in the morning post and noticed as soon as I looked at them that my name was wrong on all the documents!!

I called the solicitor who said she'd amend them and e-mail them to be by the afternoon. She didn't e-mail them til yesterday morning :mad:. My partner works 80 miles away and isn't home in the week so I drove to her where she's staying to give the documents to her to read over thinking we could sign them together on Friday night and post them Saturday. She called me last night to say that one of the documents still has the wrong name on!!! :mad:

It's now Thursday and I don't see how we're going to get the right documents signed and returned before Monday or Tuesday :mad:. Until we know that are moving date is 100% confirmed as the 11th we can't book a removal guy!! Can anyone give me any advise please...are things always so last minute? I assumed we'd have a concrete moving date at least a week in advance.

you need to talk it through with your conveyancer, but did you go cheap and use someone rubbish from a conveyancing factory...names please.