Help with house buy taking far too long!

Windofchange

We were in this position last year. As has been stated, we just let our contract roll over into a periodic one, and this was fantastic as we had a one month notice period as opposed to a minimum of six. Buying in the pandemic, we had it all - our vendor's sale fell through, she changed solicitors and we had to redo some of our paperwork, the government shut the property market, etc etc. Best advice anyone can give you is just try to let it wash over you. I found it was initially a whole load of activity, back and forth with paperwork, queries etc etc, and then nothing for about 6 months whilst everything got put in place. Then, I got a call quite out of the blue from the estate agent asking if we could complete next week. We couldn't, but did a few weeks later and here we are coming up to a year in our new place. There is no point in calling your solicitor every day - nothing is going to change or happen any quicker. It's in everyone's interests to get it done ASAP - they get paid sooner, the seller gets to move on, you get to move in. It is a crap process, and god it's easier said than done to be patient, but it's all you can do. 

Tiglet2

teachfast said:

Tiglet2 said:

teachfast said:

Tiglet2 said:

teachfast said:

These analogies don't work. If the photos had been promised or expected after a month, and there was no contact from the photographer after this date, then yes, you would expect to call. 

Ridiculous. 

I doubt very much that photographers would have made any such promises.  Nor would they think it acceptable for you to call every day.  Most people work to an estimate.  In the case of solicitors, they do not promise or estimate.  The vast majority of promises and estimates are drive by the clients themselves or by EAs and are mostly a desire to be "in" by whatever date suits them, without any knowledge of the process or listening to advice given to them by the conveyancer as to how long the conveyancing will take.  It always takes longer than you think it will and there should be awareness that conveyancers do have other clients and other work and do have to work alongside third parties over which they have no control over timescales. 

What kind of job do you do, that is so perfect compared to conveyancing?  What gives you the right to bad-mouth conveyancing, when you're not a conveyancer and do not work at a law firm?  It's about time you backed up your allegations with facts and the background to whatever it is that caused the huge chip on your shoulder.

The best bit is that I only ever respond about conveyancers and conveyancing solicitors on threads where people are already having issues. The fact that I respond so much demonstrates the depth of the problem. They are a blight on the industry and anyone trying to say otherwise needs to give their head a wobble. 

Evading answering the questions again.  

Your many responses repeating the same nonsense are neither backed up by facts, nor are they constructive or helpful to the people on these threads asking for advice.  Unlike you, some of us are trying to be helpful by unravelling the problem.  

I don't consider continually denying the issue might be with the solicitor to be helpful. And I'm not sure who made you the forum police?

I'm not sure who made you the conveyancing ombudsman

AnotherJoe

Windofchange said:

We were in this position last year. As has been stated, we just let our contract roll over into a periodic one, and this was fantastic as we had a one month notice period as opposed to a minimum of six. Buying in the pandemic, we had it all - our vendor's sale fell through, she changed solicitors and we had to redo some of our paperwork, the government shut the property market, etc etc. Best advice anyone can give you is just try to let it wash over you. I found it was initially a whole load of activity, back and forth with paperwork, queries etc etc, and then nothing for about 6 months whilst everything got put in place. Then, I got a call quite out of the blue from the estate agent asking if we could complete next week. We couldn't, but did a few weeks later and here we are coming up to a year in our new place. There is no point in calling your solicitor every day - nothing is going to change or happen any quicker. It's in everyone's interests to get it done ASAP - they get paid sooner, the seller gets to move on, you get to move in. It is a crap process, and god it's easier said than done to be patient, but it's all you can do. 

Sometimes you do need to be more than patient. Or is it, less than patient?

There can be nervous, lazy, deluded etc buyers or sellers who need a good firm kick up the you-know-what to get them to move on.

FTB's who prevaricate about signing documents or hang back because they arent quite sure, buyers who are having difficulties getting the mortgage, sellers who were going to move into rental or their mums and now find thats difficult or wnat to tie in a new purchase to their sale, etc etc.

You do need to keep a careful watch for these people and apply pressure if needed or you'll wait indefinitely or until a seller or buyer just fades away and you realise you've been taken for a chump.