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Do you know if you have an actual solicitor acting in your conveyancing?
timmyt
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Most people think they have an actual conveyancing 'solicitor' acting.Do you know for sure if yours is a conveyancing 'solicitor' or at least a legal executive?
My posts are just my opinions and are not offered as legal advice - though I consider them darn fine opinions none the less.:cool2:
My bad spelling...well I rush type these opinions on my own time, so sorry, but they are free.:o
My bad spelling...well I rush type these opinions on my own time, so sorry, but they are free.:o
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Most people think they have an actual conveyancing 'solicitor' acting. My solicitor this, my solicitor that.....but if only they knew that they might even have a secretary doing their legal work :eek:
If you don't have a conveyancing solicitor and you have anyone else then you'd think your fee would be less. Usually it is not, and sometimes with high pressure estate agent referrals, you end up paying more.
Do you know for sure if yours is a conveyancing 'solicitor' or at least a legal executive?
Scary if you do not, as have you been suckered into paying a non-legal expert a solicitor fee....:eek:
Does it really matter?
Conveyancing ain't rocket science, it's mainly about form-filling
When I was a junior solicitors clerk, 35 years ago, we had to visit the seller's solicitors offices omigod in order to check title and hand over a bankers draft
We would then return with a bagful of deeds
These days, there is no physical exchange of contract, nor payment of deposit, nor handover of title deed
It's a game of charades, played in a field of Scotch Mist
MMM0 -
Indeed. If it weren't for mortgage lenders insisting, true Moneysavers would do their own conveyancing.0
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