Agreed fee (in contract) on replacement boiler not paid after sale

lincroft1710

TheJP said:

lincroft1710 said:

user1977 said:

lincroft1710 said:

endplate said:

The clause reads - "The sellers agree that on completion they will make an allowance of xxxx towards the cost of a replacement boiler"

Allowance? That is slightly ambiguous.

It could imply that the agreed price should be reduced by £xxxx, rather than the vendor pay £xxxx.

Call it what you want, it ought to have been taken account of in the completion statement.

Agreed, but the wording is not what I'd expect a solicitor to use. OP's solicitor does not seem to be the best and I tend to agree with your previous post that this is where the fault lies.

An allowance is a way in which the price of the house doesn't reduce thus meaning the lender needs to be notified, the buyers solicitor or the sellers solicitor should have held back the £1500 when monies were being paid/received.

Understand. So in this case, the OP's solicitor should have held back £xxxx, if I read you correctly.

endplate

Thanks, that how I read it, so my soclistor failed to hold back the funds but are blaming it on the seller not paying them the funds. 

They have been dreadful through the whole process but surely now I can say they are incompetent? 

user1977

endplate said:

Thanks, that how I read it, so my soclistor failed to hold back the funds but are blaming it on the seller not paying them the funds. 

They have been dreadful through the whole process but surely now I can say they are incompetent? 

Yes, but best not to call them "soclistors" when you do that!

bouicca21

Look up their complaints procedure and follow it.  I had an allowance when I bought my current place. It worked exactly as TheJP described.

endplate

Hi all, just an update. Put in a formal complaint (which they never got) so I left a bad review for them online and they agreed to pay me the day after and chase the soclistor themselves . Thanks all for the advise .