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

ash28

timmyt wrote: »

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

My very own personal Solicitor disappeared into thin air after some dodgy property dealings and being told by the High Court the firm had to pay £1.35 million to 2 housing associations.....

I trust solicitors about as much as I trust estate agents.......there must be some decent ones about.

centretap

timmyt wrote: »

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.

So you admit you are spamming.

Ulfar

timmyt wrote: »

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.

I say !!!!!!!!, solicitors are as hard to nail down as water.

timmyt

bemusedman wrote: »

Solicitors and Lexcel accredited conveyancers have their heads so far up their own backsides that the lump in their throats is their nose! They're all slow and really expensive but think that because they've got a law degree (usually from 3rd rate polytech universities) that the rest of the world owes them. The point KateLiana27 makes about them being "too important to pick up the phone" sums them up nicely.

That's just a sweeping generalisation by the way, but that's what this thread is all about, right?

you like many - so you are not to blame - think solicitors and legal executives handle the majority of conveyancing. you would be mistaken, outfits get unqualified staff in as it means they can charge the client (you) the same but their overhead is low.

so when things go wrong, people just simply say 'oh my solicitor got it wrong'.

there are exceptions, as with doctors getting things wrong, but you know they are the best people to go to when you want something done right.

timmyt

centretap wrote: »

So you admit you are spamming.

?

I don't tout, this website is a way to avoid making a loss in money. just choose your legal adviser well, as it is depressing to see so many bad choices by people.

centretap

Timmyt, is English your first language? If not then your slightly strange English grammar is understandable, if it is then it doesn't inspire confidence in you as someone offering opinions on legal matters.

sootygull

Solicitor used.

The plan is for a completion of the 15th September.

The story in brief:

My solicitor has missed Exchange dates of 26th August, 9th September and today the 12th September.

She said it was her day off and she couldn't come in to do the exchange and that the senior partner will do it. He said today that she will do it tomorrow.

Nice !

The removal company which I have booked are not very happy.

Apparently it will be tomorrow !

Will post more when completion is reached.

G_M

sootygull wrote: »

Solicitor used.

The plan is for a completion of the 15th September.

The story in brief:

My solicitor has missed Exchange dates of 26th August, 9th September, 12th September.

Apparently it will be tomorrow !

Will post more when completion is reached.

In isolation, this post is meaningless. If solicitor simply 'missed' Exchange on 26th Aug, why was Exchange not done on 27th?
It sounds to me more likely that he gave you these dates as target dates for Exchange, but for whatever reason the dates were not viable. ie a search was not back as expected, a disagreement arose over contract terms, a mortgage offer (perhaps elsewhere in the chain) was delayed.

This is not the same as "My solicitor has missed Exchange dates " which implies inefficiency or unprofessionalism or laziness or something.

gunge

timmyt wrote: »

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

...

so dont be tempted by non-solicitors

Your post is incredibly biased, misleading and factually incorrect.

- I dont see why a non-solicitor should be slow.

- I dont see why a non-solicitor should overlook legal mistakes.

- I dont see why a non-solicitor should be inexperienced.

- I dont see why a non-solicitor should inflate their prices and I fail to see how solicitors are not in it for profit.

- The Council for Licensed Conveyancers falls under the remit of the Legal Services Board, therefore complaints against Licensed Conveyancers will go to the Legal Ombudsman, the same as complaints against solicitors.

- I dont see why a non-solicitor should need Lexcel acreditation when it is a scheme for solicitors only.

To avoid it being raised as an issue, I would also clarify that I am not a conveyancer.

G.

timmyt

gunge wrote: »

Your post is incredibly biased, misleading and factually incorrect.

- I dont see why a non-solicitor should be slow. please re-read my post for what i actually said

- I dont see why a non-solicitor should overlook legal mistakes. ditto

- I dont see why a non-solicitor should be inexperienced. ditto

- I dont see why a non-solicitor should inflate their prices and I fail to see how solicitors are not in it for profit. ditto

- The Council for Licensed Conveyancers falls under the remit of the Legal Services Board, therefore complaints against Licensed Conveyancers will go to the Legal Ombudsman, the same as complaints against solicitors. ditto

- I dont see why a non-solicitor should need Lexcel acreditation when it is a scheme for solicitors only. and the equivalent elsewhere is....

To avoid it being raised as an issue, I would also clarify that I am not a conveyancer.

G.

welcome new poster. but do read the cautionary post of mine which is based on over 10,000 team transactions and feedback in more than a decade.

shame you 'dont' see' as you may end up posting a tale of woe one day. I hope you don't.:eek: