Dealing with the other side’s solicitors - UPDATE

fannyanna

Oh but that sounds like heaven to me :A

Congratulations on your pending move - hope everything goes well :beer:

gazfocus

We had very similar problems to you. Our purchase was dragging and it was always the vendors solicitors dragging their heals. Just one example is our solicitor wanted planning permission from the council. Three weeks after our solicitor requested it from the vendors solicitor, the vendors solicitor hadn't got it from the council so I phoned the council, went and paid the £10 fee and got it there and then.

To be fair, the estate agents we were buying through were very helpful at chasing things and when we stressed that our mortgage offer was due to expire within a month and if that were to happen we would be pulling out, it got things moving very quickly. At one point, the lady we were dealing with at the EA went on holiday so I did contact the vendors solicitor (which got me a telling off from my solicitor) but within 2 weeks of threatening to pull out, we got our keys.

As arbrighton, we now have the bank holiday weekend full or painting/decorating and moving (we actually have to be out of our rented house on Monday) and have no carpets down yet because of decorating.

I sincerely hope you get things sorted soon though.

Ellie83

gazfocus wrote: »

We had very similar problems to you. Our purchase was dragging and it was always the vendors solicitors dragging their heals. Just one example is our solicitor wanted planning permission from the council. Three weeks after our solicitor requested it from the vendors solicitor, the vendors solicitor hadn't got it from the council so I phoned the council, went and paid the £10 fee and got it there and then.

We are going through something similar. Our solicitor asked for additional information a month ago and the vendor's solicitors just ignored her request. She now has to do the searches herself and she anticipates that it will take a couple of weeks. (not a straightforward thing to search, unfortunately!) It's just so stressful! And I am told it gets even worse when you are ready to sell and have to deal with selling AND buying at the same time :rotfl:

Ellie83

fannyanna wrote: »

Oh but that sounds like heaven to me :A

Congratulations on your pending move - hope everything goes well :beer:

Yeah, I agree with fannyanna I would LOVE to be cleaning and decorating and organising tours of our first home

Ulfar

It sounds like you have a dud somewhere. Why couldn't the seller's conveyancer ring him for answers, we do have these things called telephones now.

I have had a dud solicitor before and resorted to ringing to chase every day, I got so !!!!ed off with him I rang the vendor directly. My solicitor tried getting snotty about it until I put him straight that the delays were his fault and I was employing him.

He still managed to !!!! everything up and had to pay quite a lot of compensation when he made me homeless for 2 days by completing the sale of my flat on a Wednesday but not completing the purchase of my new flat till the Friday.

My advice put your stroppy boots on and get kicking.

nikki1520

We were also in a similar position - our solicitor wouldn't exchange on our house without sight of the S106 agreement. The vendor (a building society, as it was a repo) were dragging their feet, but said that if we didn't exchange by a certain day the property was goiung to auction:eek:

So they wouldn't provide the information, and our solicitor was apparently incapable of phoning up the council and asking for it themselves. They hadn't told us what they were waiting for - just said it was information required. I took the bull by the horns one day, phoned them and asked them to explain exactly what it was they were waiting for, all prepared to go to the council and sit there forever until I got it - it took me about 10 minutes of googling to find it, online. We exchanged the next day, but OMG it was stressful

arbrighton

Ellie83 wrote: »

Yeah, I agree with fannyanna I would LOVE to be cleaning and decorating and organising tours of our first home

not moving properly til October as we missed the deadline to give notice on this place for September. But would rather paint etc without furniture to shift. Not quite sure when we'll get the whole shebang finished.

Ellie83

arbrighton wrote: »

not moving properly til October as we missed the deadline to give notice on this place for September. But would rather paint etc without furniture to shift. Not quite sure when we'll get the whole shebang finished.

Yes, better without the furniture And it'll give you the time to air the place and get rid of most of the fumes from the new paint. Maybe ask the MiL to help with the decorating, hehe

arbrighton

Ellie83 wrote: »

Yes, better without the furniture And it'll give you the time to air the place and get rid of most of the fumes from the new paint. Maybe ask the MiL to help with the decorating, hehe

MIL can't help unfortunately as she is mostly in a wheelchair although she would dearly dearly love to. We're going to show her round, listen to her ideas, say thank you very much, we'll think about it then drop her back home.
Then I get my mum round to paint!

Ellie83

arbrighton wrote: »

MIL can't help unfortunately as she is mostly in a wheelchair although she would dearly dearly love to. We're going to show her round, listen to her ideas, say thank you very much, we'll think about it then drop her back home.
Then I get my mum round to paint!

Ooops, sorry, I didn't know she was disabled Well, yes, the best way to deal with mothers and MiL is to nod, agree with everything and then do it your own way