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my solicitor is too busy to exchange
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thank you ethank for your encouragement it is helpful to hear that it is likely to be ok in the end.0
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my husband and i would like tothank everyone who posted to try to help us. the vendors are putting the property back on the market today.
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Sorry to hear that Happilass.
Can you get a letter from the Vendor's solicitor or estate agent saying they are withdrawing from the sale purely because your solicitor won't do the work to exchange? Ask them to tell you any other problems they had with your solicitor along the way. They may not tell you but worth a try.
If so that will be valuable to put in your complaint to the Law Society about your solicitor.
When you find another house, make sure your new solicitor is an accredited residential conveyancing specialist on the Law Society list. http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/find-a-solicitor/
In a way, maybe this is fate. You would never have been able to trust the work your solicitor did and would always be wondering what was missed or done wrong.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Any more posts you want to make on something you obviously know very little about?"
Is an actual reaction to my posts, so please don't rely on anything I say.
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my husband and i would like tothank everyone who posted to try to help us. the vendors are putting the property back on the market today.
thanks,
happi
I really sympathise as my sale nearly fell through due to similar arrogance and incompetence on the part of the buyer's solicitor. (You're not based in Bristol by any chance?!) I hope you have rung the solicitor to give him merry hell about this and tell him he has 24 hours to exchange contracts or you are walking away and not paying him a penny. I would actually phone and insist on speaking to a senior partner, not the k***head in question! as that will be your best chance of resolution. The last thing the partner wants is his firm losing money. Do it now and don't take no for an answer. The vendor will still be happy to exchange with you rather than go through the whole process with a different buyer. Good luck.0 -
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