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Solicitor amending contracts after signing
orangeyred
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We received our first look at the contract from our solicitor around 2 weeks ago and found the contract had several mistakes including both me and my partner's names missing (square brackets weren't filled out), our addresses were missing and the address of the property we are buying also had an incorrect county. We notified our solicitor and requested amendments.
Our solicitor still wants us to sign the contract though and is insisting it's standard practice to sign the draft, mistakes and all, and they will then make the amendments after. I'm not sure I'm willing to trust them to do this considering they've failed to spot the errors in the first place.
Is this really standard practice? It's been almost 2 weeks now since we told them and no sign of a new contract. They seem to be waiting for us to sign the draft one.
Our solicitor still wants us to sign the contract though and is insisting it's standard practice to sign the draft, mistakes and all, and they will then make the amendments after. I'm not sure I'm willing to trust them to do this considering they've failed to spot the errors in the first place.
Is this really standard practice? It's been almost 2 weeks now since we told them and no sign of a new contract. They seem to be waiting for us to sign the draft one.
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Stand firm and don't sign anything till you're happy with all the terms and conditions and that all mistakes have been amended.0
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Sign it and write FRPO. DRAFT COPY before each Signature.
If what they are saying is true, they wont mind.....I do Contracts, all day every day.0 -
Sign the contract but amend it yourself first.It's someone else's fault.0
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Yes it is normal practice.
They will amend it, and discuss the amendments with the other side's solicitor who will anend his copy so that the two contracts match.
Then at the appropriate moment they will Exchange.
Either
1) sign and send back or
2) insert the missing info & make the amendments, then sign and send back
It happens every day of the week....
In the bad old days, corrections were made in colour, a re-draft was issued and sent out, then re-corrected in a different colour (red, green, purple & in extreme cases blue if I remember correctly). It took bloody weeks of back and forth! All much simpler now....0
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