Can I call vendors Solicitor?

dean182

We are all ready and waiting at our end to move (apparently!) but are still waiting on vendors solictors to find out about certificates for work that has been carried out on the house.

Would you call them or not? My solicitor has said he'll phone as soon as he hears something but should I chase them myself or is that a little OTT.

Thanks........ Anna

Doozergirl

You are not allowed to talk to your vendor's solicitor. They will refuse to talk to you.

Use the estate agent and your solicitor to answer any direct questions that you have. Write down what you want to know and then ask both to find the answers for you. Don't take no for an answer.

You could even just ask your vendor!

dean182

Love your signature Doozergirl... had me laughing out loud!!:rotfl:

Will try EA again tomorrow, annoyed me as last time I spoke to the agent, she said all she could do is leave a message with vendors solicitor... not good enough for me! :mad: Will keep trying. :rolleyes:

Running_Horse

We are in exactly the same position. Vendor not in a hurry, we and our buyers want to move immediately. Vendor's solicitor won't even take calls from other solicitors, while vendor takes weeks to return forms we sent back by return. Nothing we can do but wait patiently. Perhaps there should be a penalty system for slow vendors and solicitors; say £100 per day off the price for every day of unnecessary delay.

dean182

Running_Horse wrote: »

We are in exactly the same position. Vendor not in a hurry, we and our buyers want to move immediately. Vendor's solicitor won't even take calls from other solicitors, while vendor takes weeks to return forms we sent back by return. Nothing we can do but wait patiently. Perhaps there should be a penalty system for slow vendors and solicitors; say £100 per day off the price for every day of unnecessary delay.

:T I like that idea! The most frustrating thing is the vendor wanted 6 week completion, you'd think she'd be chasing the solicitor herself.

waster_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

You are not allowed to talk to your vendor's solicitor. They will refuse to talk to you.

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Why do you think that? Of course you are allowed to contact the vendor's solicitor. They may refuse to talk to you, but IMO that would be most unprofessional of them. Unless of course they have something they do not want you to know and then you should ask yourself why!!

prutter

waster wrote: »

Why do you think that? Of course you are allowed to contact the vendor's solicitor. They may refuse to talk to you, but IMO that would be most unprofessional of them. Unless of course they have something they do not want you to know and then you should ask yourself why!!

I suspect they wouldn't talk to you, as you are not their client - and you are not paying them for their services.
Also, if they chose to advise you, as well as their client, presumably this would be a conflict or interests and against the law?

terrierlady

every day of the week our sales negotiators talk to solicitors and yes some times solicitors refuse calls ,as lets face it you are not paying their bill and they tend to be busy people.
However most are real people and now how stressful a move can be, ideally select your solicitor with care, one thats used to doing conveyancing work for a start.

pinkshoes

dean182 wrote: »

We are all ready and waiting at our end to move (apparently!) but are still waiting on vendors solictors to find out about certificates for work that has been carried out on the house.

Would you call them or not? My solicitor has said he'll phone as soon as he hears something but should I chase them myself or is that a little OTT.

Thanks........ Anna

and i'm guessing that the vendor's solicitor is telling the vendor that it's YOUR solicitor that's causing all the delays... just a hunch! It just seems to be the way it works, so everyone thinks they're doing stuff as fast as possible, and it's always the other side that's holding things up, which is exactly what solicitor's clients want to hear!

waster_2

prutter wrote: »

I suspect they wouldn't talk to you, as you are not their client - and you are not paying them for their services.
Also, if they chose to advise you, as well as their client, presumably this would be a conflict or interests and against the law?

The reply was to the fact that the poster said :
You are NOT ALLOWED to talk to the Vendors solicitor

Of course you are. As I said they may not want to talk to you. However, most professional people will talk to the other party. They do not have to share privileged or confidential information. But, to just say we are still awaiting information, or we've passed this to our client and are awaiting instruction, or we sent it to your solicitor 2 weeks ago or similar is not breaking any confidentiality, takes a couple of mins or less and shows a degree of professional courtesy and manners. After all, surely everyone should be working towards the same end of completing a contract? If not you're surely better off becoming wary and concerned sooner rather than later?

Doozergirl

I'm wrong to say you're not allowed. It's certainly not the done thing.

You're paying your solicitor to know what's going on. If you contact the vendor's solicitor you are doing their job for them.

Your best route is to ask direct questions and demand direct answers from the people that you pay.

Unprofessional it may be but solicitors often even refuse to speak to EAs.