Make sure your homemove is done by your very own personal Solicitor / Legal Executive

timmyt

Being a complicated legal transaction involving your enourmous amount of money, ff you fail to get your very own personal Solicitor or Legal Executive, you only have yourself to blame for even more chances of:
- slowness-
- overlooking of legal mistakes spotted once you move in or on a re-sale by you
- inexperience so you don't get confidence that when you call them they know what they are doing
- inflated prices by non-solicitors who are in it just for profit with no Legal Ombudsman protection for you
- no Lexcel accreditation

The list goes on.

Get your very own personal Solicitor or Legal Executive, and your chances of posting a sob story on this site will be very low indeed.

Make sure you pay around £500 plus VAT minimum for any property move, or else you have to wonder why the fee is low, as every deal has a set amount of minimum work, and corners start to get cut if the price is low.

Easy for a solicitor to slash their fees by 50% tomorrow but they'd get the office junior on minimum wage to do the work....gulp for your sake:eek: so dont be tempted by non-solicitors

G_M

timmyt wrote: »

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Get your very own personal Solicitor or Legal Executive, and your chances of posting on this site will be very low indeed.

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I have neither a personal Solicitor (not sure why the capital 'S') nor a Legal Executive, yet I manage to post on this site on a daily basis!

Don't have any difficulty doing so either.

martindow

I must say that when I have used local solicitors for conveyancing, after meeting them initially the work appears to be done mostly by secretarial staff.

Ulfar

Given past experience of a Solicitor that completed my sale on a Wednesday and my purchase the following Friday, there is no guarantee that just because you use a solicitor things will go any better. This is the reason I don't sign contracts now until they have the dates filled in.

As for guarantees and protection solicitors like surveyors have so many caveats in their contracts that getting satisfaction is incredibly difficult.

KateLiana27

I had my very own personal solicitor from an established local firm, paid more than your recommended minimum, no subbing out to anyone - and she was pretty hopeless (though nice). Friends who used a cheaper firm that subbed out to underlings actually got a better service as the admin-type staff weren't too important to pick up the phone and chase things up.

Conveyancing isn't rocket science. You basically need someone proactive and on the ball who will take ownership of your case, pay attention to detail, and communicate well with all parties. That person may or may not be a solicitor. Personal recommendations are always the best.

centretap

What prompted this post?

It looks like someone crudely trying to blow their own professions trumpet!

googler

centretap wrote: »

What prompted this post?

It looks like someone crudely trying to blow their own professions trumpet!

Click on OP's name, select 'Find more posts by ...' and you'll get the idea.

sonastin

I had a local solicitor. Who spent most of the time during my transaction on holiday. He was my personal solicitor and wouldn't delegate anything to the other solicitors in his practice. So I had to wait for him to return to the office everytime. I got more sense from his secretary and receptionist than I did from him. I didn't need to post a sob story on this forum because I didn't need advice on how to handle it. But it didn't mean I got anything like the service I paid for. At a fee well over £500.

timmyt

Ulfar wrote: »

Given past experience of a Solicitor that completed my sale on a Wednesday and my purchase the following Friday, there is no guarantee that just because you use a solicitor things will go any better. This is the reason I don't sign contracts now until they have the dates filled in.

As for guarantees and protection solicitors like surveyors have so many caveats in their contracts that getting satisfaction is incredibly difficult.

that's the point, solicitors charged the lowest fee (compared to mortgage cos, surveyors, remover, estate agents) and yet they have no exclusion clauses, none at all. If they make a mistake, you have a claim.

use someone less qualified and your chances for getting a mistake are increased.

readers have been warned.

timmyt

centretap wrote: »

What prompted this post?

It looks like someone crudely trying to blow their own professions trumpet!

with 1000 clients a year to the Team, we just see people caught time and time again. readers have been warned.

use someone ill-trained in the law and ... well my thread speaks for itself.

timmyt

KateLiana27 wrote: »

I had my very own personal solicitor from an established local firm, paid more than your recommended minimum, no subbing out to anyone - and she was pretty hopeless (though nice). Friends who used a cheaper firm that subbed out to underlings actually got a better service as the admin-type staff weren't too important to pick up the phone and chase things up.

Conveyancing isn't rocket science. :rotfl: well I hope no mistakes are found on resale, and then yes, you will have been a lucky one, phew. You basically need someone proactive and on the ball who will take ownership of your case, pay attention to detail, and communicate well with all parties. That person may or may not be a solicitor. Personal recommendations are always the best.

my thread is a generalisation of course, and so there will be exceptions, but I can speak from experiences of facing opposing solicitors whilst in a Team with a 1000 clients a year for well over a decade - not one or two personal home moves myself

Get the overall point. but good luck if you choose otherwise.:eek: