Completion of the SDLT Return

Seabee42

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/467602

Yorkie1

JWhite wrote: »

I am just a little annoyed that the solicitor seems to be happy for us to flounder (admitting that she will not help us with the odd question), trying to make it sound too difficult for us to do ourselves even though she will get her fee for the transaction and is responsible for making sure it completes on time !

Very unhelpful attitude in my opinion and in any other service sector would not be tolerated. They just seem to think they are indispensable. :mad: At the end of the day you are paying a solicitor to act as the agent to purchase a whole property, not half a one. If you were putting your car through an MOT you would not expect to be charged extra for testing the brakes or for issuing the MOT when the MOT could not be granted without it being done.

Sorry but I do disagree with this part of your post.

You are refusing to pay the solicitor to do part of the transaction (which is entirely your right), so why should you then demand that they advise you for free?

You either choose to use their advice and services, or you decide to do it on your own.

Leodogger

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Sorry but I do disagree with this part of your post.

You are refusing to pay the solicitor to do part of the transaction (which is entirely your right), so why should you then demand that they advise you for free?

You either choose to use their advice and services, or you decide to do it on your own.

Excuse me, I requested a quote from a solicitor for purchasing a property. The quote I received for a property selling for £130000 was a legal fee cost of £450 with the item of "Stamp duty Return on Your Purchase" separately costed underneath at £75. Why was this costed separately, it is part of the legal work, not an optional extra ? Or are you telling me I could have bought the property without having this legal work carried out ????

G_M

JWhite wrote: »

Excuse me, I requested a quote from a solicitor for purchasing a property. The quote I received for a property selling for £130000 was a legal fee cost of £450 with the item of "Stamp duty Return on Your Purchase" separately costed underneath at £75. Why was this costed separately, it is part of the legal work, not an optional extra ? Or are you telling me I could have bought the property without having this legal work carried out ????

Yes.

You CAN buy the property without having this legal work carried out- provided you do thework yourself.

As is true of ALL the legal work.

There is no requirement to use a solicitor/conveyancer at all.

If you choose to use one, you can also choose how much of the work you want them to do.

In this instance, they have broken the work into parts and quoted you seperately for each part.

Paully232000

On my quote from the solicitor would this be classed as a SDLT return fee?

G_M

Paully232000 wrote: »

On my quote from the solicitor would this be classed as a SDLT return fee?

I don't know. Can't see your quote! Is it?

Paully232000

G_M wrote: »

I don't know. Can't see your quote! Is it?

Why ask me is it, if I knew the answer i wouldn't ask would I

G_M

Paully232000 wrote: »

Why ask me is it, if I knew the answer i wouldn't ask would I

And if I could see your quote I'd be able to tell you how it describes completion of the SDLT form, but I can't, so all I can do is ask you what your quote says...

Leodogger

G_M wrote: »

Yes.

You CAN buy the property without having this legal work carried out- provided you do thework yourself.

As is true of ALL the legal work.

There is no requirement to use a solicitor/conveyancer at all.

If you choose to use one, you can also choose how much of the work you want them to do.

In this instance, they have broken the work into parts and quoted you seperately for each part.

Oh, you mean like buying a sofa with one arm missing :rotfl:

Very funny ! I get so sick of professional people trying to bump up the price by "breaking the service into parts" to get them extra so they don't have to show the cost "up front" !. If I wanted to be a bloody solicitor I would have gone to uni to do that, I instead worked as a secretary which I spent 3 years at college to train for. Should I have been telling my employer when he froze my salary that as I couldn't get a rise in salary i was only going to do half my job and he could pick up the post from reception himself and make his own tea !!! This country is a bloody joke. :mad:

rpc

JWhite wrote: »

Very funny ! I get so sick of professional people trying to bump up the price by "breaking the service into parts" to get them extra so they don't have to show the cost "up front" !.

And where do you think this started? It's because the customers prioritise cost above all else and will choose the £450 quote over the £500 quote regardless of extras. In order to participate in this "fight to the bottom" anything that can be stripped out of the cost is taken out. If you don't join in (and your core market is very price-sensitive) then you lose business.