Solicitor not replying - poor show?

TheJP

GolfR said:

TheJP said:

Process is process. God forbid the conveyancer is entitled to a holiday (but i admit it would have been good for them to let you know). 

1. You are 1 case of many
2. Priority cases take precedent
3. Id rather the conveyancer work on the case than respond to me every couple of days 
4. Take anything an EA says with a pinch of salt
5. A good conveyancer will only table dates when they are pretty much concrete, otherwise dates get slung around which is unhelpful

Take 5 minutes, go for a walk, have a bath, read a book or distract yourself in anyway is best for you to level out. You are very close, let the process do its thing. 

It wouldn’t have bothered me if she was taking annual leave, we’re all entitled to it but when she asked me on 3rd December when I’d like to complete I gave three dates for this current week and despite her knowing she was on annual leave on those dates she didn’t think to tell me there was no chance it would be done that soon. And if that was the case I could have given her different dates. I know the process takes time but not having had a response in almost 2 weeks and with two emails is a p*** take. 

And from things I’ve read on this forum, people have had to pester their solicitors otherwise nothing seems to get done.

The chain dictate's the completion date not the solicitor, reading the attitude from your response makes me believe you have sprung to life like a firework in the final moments in a frenzy of demands.

TripleH

Our searches took over a month (August to October time) and that was Tameside Council.

TBG01

kerrymxxx said:

Mine are totally useless also never give us any updates, if you don’t mind me asking all in all how long has this taken you? We sold our house beginning of September and they are saying they are still waiting for search’s, we are no chain and buyers are 1st time buyers just seems like it’s taking forever. 

You accepted an offer in September. You didn't sell it back then.

Strummer22

And from things I’ve read on this forum, people have had to pester their solicitors otherwise nothing seems to get done.

Yes, my experience has been that quite often if you don’t hear anything, it’s just because the solicitor is waiting for something from the other party’s solicitor or from a third party. 

But it’s also been my experience that it’s quite likely that when you finally break and call them because you’ve not had an update in 3 weeks, knowing that e.g. they’re waiting on replies to enquiries, they say ‘I’ll just check the file. Oh yes, that has been received.” They won’t say when so you have to explicitly ask, and the answer will be probably be “2 weeks ago.”

This is why people chase, and why those who chase (without overdoing it) get their cases progressed faster.

I would love to be able to run an experiment with two identical transactions, one where the the solicitor gets chased and one where they don’t, and see what the difference in timescales is.

FrankRizzo

The whole conveyancing and antiquated ways solicitors work is extremely antiquated. The actual end to end conveyancing process is not hard and bottlenecks occur because of the inefficiencies of solicitor offices. There is a serious gap in the market for a lean online amazon type solicitors to disrupt the market!