Buying and selling a house

[llewop]

What doesn't help is that when it comes to the crunch: it's not just who you've decided to use it is all the others involved: Tomorrow is supposedly 3rd time lucky in terms of exchange of contracts after delays caused by:

buyers solicitor going on holiday and apparently no one else in the office able move things forward - delay of a week in exchanging contracts
buyers solicitor not starting the exchange process as they hadn't been told today to do it (although they were told to do so yesterday (and last week)....)
solicitor for the house we're trying to buy either: had to leave early so didn't have time to exchange (but had time to send e-mails saying there wasn't time....) or because some phantom cheque hadn't cleared - not sure which was the reason, but at the end of the day, irrelevant as it screwed things either way.



The whole process is a farce and needs a massive shake up

I'm really not looking forward to completion/moving day as there are no end of ways the f-wits can still screw it up and leave us standing outside a house not getting in

[SunsetZed]

llewop said:

The whole process is a farce and needs a massive shake up

This, there are bad agents, bad solicitors and bad buyers but there are good ones too, if offers were more legally binding or completion had to be quicker (as in within XX days like in Oz) then things woudl work better, especially if all employed parties were only paid subject to gettign the work done in the agreed timescale.

[Bluebarge]

GTIR said:

My conveyancing cost a tad under £1000.

So the property wasn't worth much then.

1. you took 3 years to make your mind up to sell;
2. you were paying the agent a small fee;
3. you expect him to be there 24/7 as soon as your house goes on the market and don't accept that anyone else in his office can field calls or send viewers for the entire period your house is up for sale (which could be months).

There's definitely one be***nd on this thread and I don't reckon it's me.

[thismonkeyhere]

fesuvious said:

Oh yes, indeed

http://moversandstorers.co.uk/2014/05/17/how-does-...

Enjoyed that ^.

...and that's if it goes well.

[paulrockliffe]

thismonkeyhere said:

fesuvious said:

Oh yes, indeed

http://moversandstorers.co.uk/2014/05/17/how-does-...

Enjoyed that ^.

...and that's if it goes well.

"Gary can have the keys and start moving his one sofa, one bed and garage full of tools in."

So true.

[Rude-boy]

Funny as there is some truth in there for some firms i could think of. On the other hand i have just had a text from my secretary to tell me the 4 completions we had today have all been sorted and keys released. One of them was where we were stage 4 in a chain of 6.

Today i am on holiday. It doesn't matter if i am in meetings other off like today as you have procedures in place to ensure that it doesn't matter if you are there or not and someone to deal with any emergencies.

[onomatopoeia]

Rude-boy said:

Are these problems that are an inconvenience to you or real ones that you don't care about but which your solicitor, who is also acting for the lender, has explained that they have to deal with to satisfy the CML?

Last move I did my solicitor was acting for me, not the lender.

I also had to pay for the solicitor the lender appointed - they did tell me I wouldn't have to pay their fee for their solicitor if I appointed same to do my conveyancing (or any other of their approved list of solicitors), but since I was moving from near Bristol to near Bristol I wanted a solicitor in Bristol that was (a) recommended locally and (b) I could go and talk to in person. The lender's solicitor was in Leicestershire, from memory, so no nipping over in my lunch hour.

[monthefish]

Rude-boy said:

Remember it is always very easy to criticise what you don't understand. I mean I have no idea why our IT support can't seem to get three simple pieces of software to talk to each other properly and work on the server. They have had unfettered access for the last few years, spec'd the systems and were all but given a blank cheque...

Good point.

[crankedup]

Last year we employed the services of an on-line conveyancer, everything was a fast and perfect sale and purchase with the added bonus of a much speedier service than we had experienced from previous conveyancing. We were slightly apprehensive to start with, not actually seeing the person doing the work, but this quickly passed.

[dave_s13]

crankedup said:

Last year we employed the services of an on-line conveyancer, everything was a fast and perfect sale and purchase with the added bonus of a much speedier service than we had experienced from previous conveyancing. We were slightly apprehensive to start with, not actually seeing the person doing the work, but this quickly passed.

We did this.

It was a shambles and they adopted an illegal SDLT scheme which means we're having to pay it twice.

You live and learn.

[GTIR]

Bluebarge said:

GTIR said:

My conveyancing cost a tad under £1000.

So the property wasn't worth much then.

1. you took 3 years to make your mind up to sell;
2. you were paying the agent a small fee;
3. you expect him to be there 24/7 as soon as your house goes on the market and don't accept that anyone else in his office can field calls or send viewers for the entire period your house is up for sale (which could be months).

There's definitely one be***nd on this thread and I don't reckon it's me.

Ahh, so you are an estate agent then.

If not you should be.

[GTIR]

GTIR said:

Play nicely now!

Edited by Big Al. on Thursday 21st August 18:47

Sorry dad.

Put kettle on.

[Bluebarge]

GTIR said:

Ahh, so you are an estate agent then.

If not you should be.

Sure sign of a lost argument.

And, no, I'm not.

[GTIR]

Bluebarge said:

GTIR said:

Ahh, so you are an estate agent then.

If not you should be.

Sure sign of a lost argument.

And, no, I'm not.

I'm not arguing just posting facts.
You're the one getting her knickers in a twist.