Searches and slow solicitors

snowcat75

omarmansour said:

rik111 said:

It’s gone from 6 or 7 weeks in to almost 8 weeks in the space of a few hours.... If the search company were that incompetent they wouldn’t be in business any more, last thing a solicitor needs is them holding things up and having neurotic buyers chasing them constantly so they can’t get any work done. It all sounds like it’s progressing nicely if you are only at 8 weeks. Either relax and accept the fact these things take time or pull the plug as you are clearly not cut out for moving home.

I appreciate your help and input which I wanted from this forum in the very first place. But a) Not your place to judge if am a neurotic buyer or not b) not your place to assume I amnot cut for moving home. My assumption is that these forums are public for everyone to comment and seek help from other people who have been through the process, not to be judged and definitely not be scolded becuase I sought help after some weeks of no news. Perhaps you should accept the fact that you shouldn’t be commenting on posts that triggers judgmental statements for no reason? Thanks for your input again.

Generally for some strange reason on MSE the complete incompetence shown by most professionals  throughout the buying and selling process is defended. 
Solicitors in general in my experience are in are often fairly useless unless you behind them pushing them.... and even after a glacial pace of movement there often completing work at the 11th hour or you check the work and find glaring discrepancy's. 

My advice is to become irritating to both the EA and the conveyancer, The searches are only one list of many excuses, Your not there to make friends. 

Falafels

omarmansour said:

I never claimed I wanted a personalised service or to pay them by the minute. It's just when the process is held up for almost 8 weeks for no apparent reason (now I know search companies won't budge on their timelines), I just thought this warranted a point of concern on my end.

Don't worry.

Frustrating, I know, but this is par for the course; there are all sorts of other processes which take place alongside the searches so it isn't necessarily true that no progress has been made.  You've done everything you can to move things along, so now you can afford to sit back and let it happen in its own time. I read somewhere recently that the average length of time from offer accepted to completion right now is around 5 months - my own sale took 13 weeks to exchange of contracts - but then things started to move REALLY fast!

Falafels

snowcat75 said:

omarmansour said:

rik111 said:

It’s gone from 6 or 7 weeks in to almost 8 weeks in the space of a few hours.... If the search company were that incompetent they wouldn’t be in business any more, last thing a solicitor needs is them holding things up and having neurotic buyers chasing them constantly so they can’t get any work done. It all sounds like it’s progressing nicely if you are only at 8 weeks. Either relax and accept the fact these things take time or pull the plug as you are clearly not cut out for moving home.

I appreciate your help and input which I wanted from this forum in the very first place. But a) Not your place to judge if am a neurotic buyer or not b) not your place to assume I amnot cut for moving home. My assumption is that these forums are public for everyone to comment and seek help from other people who have been through the process, not to be judged and definitely not be scolded becuase I sought help after some weeks of no news. Perhaps you should accept the fact that you shouldn’t be commenting on posts that triggers judgmental statements for no reason? Thanks for your input again.

Generally for some strange reason on MSE the complete incompetence shown by most professionals  throughout the buying and selling process is defended. 

It's not a question of defending professionals who are slow to respond. It's just that when they ARE unresponsive, despite your best efforts, you have a choice as to whether to get stressed about it - putting pressure on your mental, emotional and physical health, and damaging your relationships - or to accept that this is part of the process, and relax about it. Neither attitude will make any difference to the outcome, but will make a considerable difference to your own mental health!

snowcat75

Falafels said:

snowcat75 said:

omarmansour said:

rik111 said:

It’s gone from 6 or 7 weeks in to almost 8 weeks in the space of a few hours.... If the search company were that incompetent they wouldn’t be in business any more, last thing a solicitor needs is them holding things up and having neurotic buyers chasing them constantly so they can’t get any work done. It all sounds like it’s progressing nicely if you are only at 8 weeks. Either relax and accept the fact these things take time or pull the plug as you are clearly not cut out for moving home.

I appreciate your help and input which I wanted from this forum in the very first place. But a) Not your place to judge if am a neurotic buyer or not b) not your place to assume I amnot cut for moving home. My assumption is that these forums are public for everyone to comment and seek help from other people who have been through the process, not to be judged and definitely not be scolded becuase I sought help after some weeks of no news. Perhaps you should accept the fact that you shouldn’t be commenting on posts that triggers judgmental statements for no reason? Thanks for your input again.

Generally for some strange reason on MSE the complete incompetence shown by most professionals  throughout the buying and selling process is defended. 

It's not a question of defending professionals who are slow to respond. It's just that when they ARE unresponsive, despite your best efforts, you have a choice as to whether to get stressed about it - putting pressure on your mental, emotional and physical health, and damaging your relationships - or to accept that this is part of the process, and relax about it. Neither attitude will make any difference to the outcome, but will make a considerable difference to your own mental health!

I disagree Iv had a few times outside of conveyancing that a solicitors indifference would have caused a serious financial penalty if allowed to slide. 
Also with property sales and buying, If your on the ball can get the chain talking and push the professionals and become the sort of client they don't want then you can shave weeks or months off the process, without a question.
Personally I find making phone calls, visiting people in person and chasseing paperwork has no effect on my emotions, physical or relationships, I just expect the job to get done.

Falafels

snowcat75 said:

Falafels said:

snowcat75 said:

omarmansour said:

rik111 said:

It’s gone from 6 or 7 weeks in to almost 8 weeks in the space of a few hours.... If the search company were that incompetent they wouldn’t be in business any more, last thing a solicitor needs is them holding things up and having neurotic buyers chasing them constantly so they can’t get any work done. It all sounds like it’s progressing nicely if you are only at 8 weeks. Either relax and accept the fact these things take time or pull the plug as you are clearly not cut out for moving home.

I appreciate your help and input which I wanted from this forum in the very first place. But a) Not your place to judge if am a neurotic buyer or not b) not your place to assume I amnot cut for moving home. My assumption is that these forums are public for everyone to comment and seek help from other people who have been through the process, not to be judged and definitely not be scolded becuase I sought help after some weeks of no news. Perhaps you should accept the fact that you shouldn’t be commenting on posts that triggers judgmental statements for no reason? Thanks for your input again.

Generally for some strange reason on MSE the complete incompetence shown by most professionals  throughout the buying and selling process is defended. 

It's not a question of defending professionals who are slow to respond. It's just that when they ARE unresponsive, despite your best efforts, you have a choice as to whether to get stressed about it - putting pressure on your mental, emotional and physical health, and damaging your relationships - or to accept that this is part of the process, and relax about it. Neither attitude will make any difference to the outcome, but will make a considerable difference to your own mental health!

Personally I find making phone calls, visiting people in person and chasseing paperwork has no effect on my emotions, physical or relationships, I just expect the job to get done.

As I said, if things move slowly DESPITE your best efforts, there's no point in getting stressed. What you describe here constitutes best efforts! 

coachman12

Slithery said:

Perhaps you should realise that this is a public forum. Other users can post whatever they wish...

Actually that is not true----there are rules that must be followed or posters can be banned. And one of them should be that newcomers , asking reasonable questions and expecting polite comments , should be treated with courtesy-----and if anyone thinks their question is not to their liking, they can always make a positive choice not to respond on forum if they have no helpful and polite comment.
Too many newcomers are put off this MSE forum because they are so often treated like morons who have no right to be here. They have as much right as the 24/7 brigade who write long-winded posts for their own self-gratification and judge other people who they think should be like them and be in the same financial position as they are. 

knightstyle

Solicitors/conveyancers are just not motivated to get things moving.
Our buyer sent some questions to his solicitor for us to answer six yes 6 weeks ago and we still have not received them!  I rang our solicitor and he says he will get round to looking soon!
Thing is that both the buyer and us the seller are using the same firm of local solicitors so no excuse on their part,  Just not doing the job we pay them for!

Thrugelmir

knightstyle said:

Just not doing the job we pay them for!

In my experience that accounts for a fair number of the UK population these days.  Spending their days texting, on facebook, on MSE, dealing with personal issues. Work has become an inconvenience. Though they'd soon complain if their employer withheld their wages. 

omarmansour

coachman12 said:

Slithery said:

Perhaps you should realise that this is a public forum. Other users can post whatever they wish...

Actually that is not true----there are rules that must be followed or posters can be banned. And one of them should be that newcomers , asking reasonable questions and expecting polite comments , should be treated with courtesy-----and if anyone thinks their question is not to their liking, they can always make a positive choice not to respond on forum if they have no helpful and polite comment.
Too many newcomers are put off this MSE forum because they are so often treated like morons who have no right to be here. They have as much right as the 24/7 brigade who write long-winded posts for their own self-gratification and judge other people who they think should be like them and be in the same financial position as they are. 

I completely agree ! Happy to accept any constructive feedback. But I don't see how name calling and bullying would help replying to a query from some one!

Tonyw193

Falafels said:

snowcat75 said:

omarmansour said:

rik111 said:

It’s gone from 6 or 7 weeks in to almost 8 weeks in the space of a few hours.... If the search company were that incompetent they wouldn’t be in business any more, last thing a solicitor needs is them holding things up and having neurotic buyers chasing them constantly so they can’t get any work done. It all sounds like it’s progressing nicely if you are only at 8 weeks. Either relax and accept the fact these things take time or pull the plug as you are clearly not cut out for moving home.

I appreciate your help and input which I wanted from this forum in the very first place. But a) Not your place to judge if am a neurotic buyer or not b) not your place to assume I amnot cut for moving home. My assumption is that these forums are public for everyone to comment and seek help from other people who have been through the process, not to be judged and definitely not be scolded becuase I sought help after some weeks of no news. Perhaps you should accept the fact that you shouldn’t be commenting on posts that triggers judgmental statements for no reason? Thanks for your input again.

Generally for some strange reason on MSE the complete incompetence shown by most professionals  throughout the buying and selling process is defended. 

It's not a question of defending professionals who are slow to respond. It's just that when they ARE unresponsive, despite your best efforts, you have a choice as to whether to get stressed about it - putting pressure on your mental, emotional and physical health, and damaging your relationships - or to accept that this is part of the process, and relax about it. Neither attitude will make any difference to the outcome, but will make a considerable difference to your own mental health!

Personally im finding solicitors extremely poor communicators. For everyone santiy and time if they simply communicated far better and give timescales to when things are likely to happen they would save themselves a lot of time answering unnecessary calls and emails. Appreciate timescales can be ball park and theres a lot of other factors but in general i find their communication extremely poor.