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Problems with lawyers
malihat
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My husband and I are FTB. We found a place we liked in March and had our offer accepted. Our mortgage offer came through last week (Friday) and searches, etc are all done. The only thing standing between exchanging contracts are a few questions our solicitor had for the seller. These queries were sent to the seller's solicitor at least a month ago but our solicitor says he has had no reply. We weren't too bothered because we thought we'd chase them up when our mortgage offer arrived.
We started chasing them up end of last week. Called the estate agent on Monday and Wednesday and they said they were chasing them up too. On Thursday the estate agent said that the seller's solicitor is saying that he has answered these questions on numerous occasions already. The estate agent said she spoke to our solicitor about this and he said he hasn't received their answers. The estate agent then told me that she has asked the seller's solicitor to forward the emails to our solicitor again and copy her into them so that she can get to the bottom of this. I called her today and she said this hasn't been done yet. She agreed with me that it should only take 5 minutes for the seller's solicitor to do this if he already has the emails on his account. However, she said that the more she seems to chase him, the less co-operative the seller's solicitor seems to get, so she said she'll wait till Monday to call them again.
Has anyone experienced anything similar? My husband wants to complain about our lawyer but I've asked him to hold off till we know what's going on. We haven't really had any issues with him so far, apart from the fact that he hasn't read our emails properly on one or two occasions, and sometimes he's hard to get a hold of on the phone. The seller is going on holiday from 20th May-4th June and we had wanted to complete before that (hubby is a teacher so he's off from work for a week end of May and we had wanted to get the decorating and other work done then) but that's obviously not happening now.
We started chasing them up end of last week. Called the estate agent on Monday and Wednesday and they said they were chasing them up too. On Thursday the estate agent said that the seller's solicitor is saying that he has answered these questions on numerous occasions already. The estate agent said she spoke to our solicitor about this and he said he hasn't received their answers. The estate agent then told me that she has asked the seller's solicitor to forward the emails to our solicitor again and copy her into them so that she can get to the bottom of this. I called her today and she said this hasn't been done yet. She agreed with me that it should only take 5 minutes for the seller's solicitor to do this if he already has the emails on his account. However, she said that the more she seems to chase him, the less co-operative the seller's solicitor seems to get, so she said she'll wait till Monday to call them again.
Has anyone experienced anything similar? My husband wants to complain about our lawyer but I've asked him to hold off till we know what's going on. We haven't really had any issues with him so far, apart from the fact that he hasn't read our emails properly on one or two occasions, and sometimes he's hard to get a hold of on the phone. The seller is going on holiday from 20th May-4th June and we had wanted to complete before that (hubby is a teacher so he's off from work for a week end of May and we had wanted to get the decorating and other work done then) but that's obviously not happening now.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
-Albert Schweitzer
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I would be wondering whether the seller is telling their solicitor to slow things up. this sometimes happens when the seller is in a chain. I think I would definitely ask the agent where the sellers are in terms of buying their next property, or do they have tenants they are waiting to move out???Hope that helps a tinsy bit. Good luck0
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The sellers are buying a property that's empty and they've actually been very eager to move forward so far. In fact, I think they're a little annoyed it's taken so long!Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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Thrugelmir wrote: »Quite possibly a probate sale.
They said the property belonged to a couple who have gotten divorced and have both moved into rented accommodation.Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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