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taylor1_2
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Hi there new to all this,
I need a bit of advice well here goes a breif history
15th Feb Offer placed on house and accepeted
15th Feb solictor instructed,
19th Feb Formal offer letter sent to us and solictor
2nd March Survey done and all fine,
12th March Solictor handed copy of Survey.
12th March Final Mortgage offer accepted.
14th March the people who's house we are buying have lost the house they wanted, asked EA to contact us to inform us of situation as they don't want to lose us as buyers, they are activley looking.
So far to date solictor has done nothing no searches etc??? is this right he say's he is waiting on Vendors solictors to senf through paperwork surley he still could of done searches?
Advice needed to i need to ring him ang give him :mad: :mad:
Or am i being impatient.
Many Thanks.
I need a bit of advice well here goes a breif history
15th Feb Offer placed on house and accepeted
15th Feb solictor instructed,
19th Feb Formal offer letter sent to us and solictor
2nd March Survey done and all fine,
12th March Solictor handed copy of Survey.
12th March Final Mortgage offer accepted.
14th March the people who's house we are buying have lost the house they wanted, asked EA to contact us to inform us of situation as they don't want to lose us as buyers, they are activley looking.
So far to date solictor has done nothing no searches etc??? is this right he say's he is waiting on Vendors solictors to senf through paperwork surley he still could of done searches?
Advice needed to i need to ring him ang give him :mad: :mad:
Or am i being impatient.
Many Thanks.
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Have you paid the solicitor for the searches?
I would have expected them, if you have paid for them, to have requested searches etc and begun drafting the contracts. At the time you instructed them you did not know that the chain would fall apart thus you would have had no reason to delay matters.0 -
Hi there yes he wanted the money for the searches upfront which the cheque was cashed within a day of me handing it to him and that was 20th March,
Thanks for the swift reply.0 -
In which case a phone call is in order to see why things have not moved on.0
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Hi,
Your solicitor cannot do the searches etc. until they have received the draft contract pack from the vendors solicitor, and it sounds like this is what they are waiting for.
Exactly the same delay has affected my purchase; as it has taken 4 weeks to locate the deeds and I have only just heard the contract pack is on its way to my solicitor!0 -
Oh right so i could still ring him them to find out how things are going and ask him to ring vendors solictors, he did say that he was waiting for paperwork and it would probably take a while, but he also said he couldn't start to proceed until he had the formal offer letter from EA which he received back in Feb, it's all so very confusing it also doesn't help that i have NO PATIENCE
oops noticed mistake in last post he cashed the cheque in Feb not March
Thank you0
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