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HIP Pack - Where do i stand?
ajtaylor09
Posts: 3 Newbie
After two failed relationships and 4 years on the market, i have finally sold my House! 
However i have just been called by my lovely estate agents ( :rotfl:) to say upon sale i will owe them £399 +vat for the HIP pack that i had to take out at the time of sale.
Unfortunately i signed a contract with my ex 4 years ago, when it was being put on the market to take out the HIP pack which would be free at sale if i used there solicitors during the sale.
I completely unaware of this (it had been 4 years) have used a different solicitor and now im going to have to pay them, this money.
Is there anything i can do, to get out of it. My house was in negative equity as it is, so as a result of all my recent hard work to pay off everything i owe. Im going to be back in debt again!
Any thoughts?
However i have just been called by my lovely estate agents ( :rotfl:) to say upon sale i will owe them £399 +vat for the HIP pack that i had to take out at the time of sale.
Unfortunately i signed a contract with my ex 4 years ago, when it was being put on the market to take out the HIP pack which would be free at sale if i used there solicitors during the sale.
I completely unaware of this (it had been 4 years) have used a different solicitor and now im going to have to pay them, this money.
Is there anything i can do, to get out of it. My house was in negative equity as it is, so as a result of all my recent hard work to pay off everything i owe. Im going to be back in debt again!
Any thoughts?
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Comments
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Why did you use an alternate Solicitor if the contract you signed stated you had to use the agents?0
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My thoughts are that you signed a contract saying you'd do something and now you have to follow it through.
Why should whoever produced the HIP lose out because you have a bad memory and are in neg equity?0 -
Where do you stand? If you're a woman, in the kitchen. If you're a man, where ever you like so long as it's not upwind of me.0
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