Solicitors redemption blunder means an extra bill

giraffe69

Send them £600 and say you have deducted £100 for their poor admin.

martindow

I suppose you could write back saying you are not in a position to pay this unexpected extra sum offering to pay £100 a month and enclose a cheque for the first payment.



If they think they will end up having to enter into a correspondence with you going back and forth they may go along with this.


If they cash the cheque they are implicitly accepting your offer.

davidmcn

I think people are missing the point that it's the lender who is asking for the £700 balance on their account, not the solicitors.

And no, nobody else is likely to just "suck it up" when they haven't actually cost you £700. If you had accidentally sent £700 too much to the solicitors, would you expect a refund or just to "suck up" your own mistake?

doozeruk

kirtondm wrote: »

What I dont get is why you had not worked out the figure yourself? To be £1100 of expectations is signficant.

when moveing we have always had an idea to the nearest £100 where we should be?

So its not costing yor more it is the correct amount you just had not estimated it correctly yourself?

This was a remortgage and handled by a broker who gave us a rounded figure of £1x000 on redemption, again we received NO documentation from mortgage company or solicitors until 1 day before completion, so how was I to know any different? People are paid to work these things out so we don't have too surely!

I look at this from a point of view of myself sending in an quote to all contributers here (and thanks again for your input) for construction work. My quote for £5000 includes all materials, I made an admin error and left off £500 worth of materials. So now when I produce an invoice for you at £5500 you would all be happy to pay it?

It seems to me the finance industry have different rules.

davidmcn

doozeruk wrote: »

My quote for £5000 includes all materials, I made an admin error and left off £500 worth of materials. So now when I produce an invoice for you at £5500 you would all be happy to pay it?

It seems to me the finance industry have different rules.

But we're not talking about a fee which the solicitor has quoted you for legal work, we're talking about the balance needed to repay your loan account.

And given the tiny profit margins solicitors make on remortgage transactions, it's a bit more like you accidentally quoting £5000 instead of £50,000!

eddddy

doozeruk wrote: »

I look at this from a point of view of myself sending in an quote to all contributers here (and thanks again for your input) for construction work. My quote for £5000 includes all materials, I made an admin error and left off £500 worth of materials. So now when I produce an invoice for you at £5500 you would all be happy to pay it?

Perhaps a better analogy would be you saying to a customer...

"I'll pay the Council's Building Control Inspection fee for you and add it to my invoice."

Then you make a mistake and add £200 to your invoice when the inspection fee that you paid was actually £900.

(So I guess you'd explain your mistake, and ask for the extra £700 - wouldn't you?)

elsien

Apologies if I'm missing the obvious, but if it's your solicitors mistake and they want to pay you the money to cover it, what's the issue - you're not out of pocket if they're making up the difference.

eddddy

elsien wrote: »

Apologies if I'm missing the obvious, but if it's your solicitors mistake and they want to pay you the money to cover it, what's the issue - you're not out of pocket if they're making up the difference.

Yep - I think you're missing the obvious.

Maybe you misread "they would like us to pay the monies" as "they would like to pay us the monies".

elsien

eddddy wrote: »

Yep - I think you're missing the obvious.

Maybe you misread "they would like us to pay the monies" as "they would like to pay us the monies".

Skim reading. My bad.

AylesburyDuck

If it's money you owe, then it's money you owe. Obviously had this not been highlighted at the soonest and it became "money you owed+interest because they cocked up" then you could ask them to cough up the interest but nothing more, but it isnt.
Sorry, but it's not like they cost you money for their error, the money was always due to be paid, so you have no leg to stand on i'm afraid.