Chasing clients for over a month to send money for searches.
They send it in at last today and also email stating they want to now complete as soon as possible… 🤬
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Secret Conveyancing Solicitor
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Secret Conveyancing Solicitor
@SecretConveySol
Commentating on and moaning about the day to day reality of working in property law in England and Wales
शामिल हुए Ekim 2022
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Dear Agents,
If a memo of sale is issued on a Wednesday, it is not appropriate to chase on both the following Monday and the Thursday for updates.
Kind regards
Every Conveyancing Solicitor in the Country.
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A real hatred of mine is when a seller’s solicitor states that completion has to be a certain date and then still has not provided all replies to enquiries 🤬
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@gamecounsel I saw this article but couldn’t access it as my firm don’t subscribe 🥲
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@SecretConveySol Do you have access to LexisNexis? That question is answered here.
lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/guidance…
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Buying an auction property. EPC valid at exchange but expired a few days later so not a valid one in place for completion date.
Agent says it just was needed to be valid for marketing, is this the case?
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Conveyancers can’t win.
Acting on a purchase which has gone very smooth, good title and enquiries answered quickly.
Client says that it was far quicker than he thought it would be and would there be a reduction in fees as a result as the work was ‘easier’. 🤬
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@bijoulandlord I do that as well but it doesn’t stop it.
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@SecretConveySol This must drive you mad. But if you initiated contact every couple of days they would start to trust you
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In a chain and there have been delays out of our control.
Client has emailed me 73 times during the transaction, primarily with update requests which I seem to be responding to daily and ending each one with ‘I’ll let you know as soon as we have news’.
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Client had to use bank’s solicitor on a purchase due to there being a closed mortgage panel.
He wants to use us to give ILA for the guarantee and is told that the bank’s solicitors charge to check ILA done by another firm at the same cost as the ILA so better to do it in house!
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@houseaboutman That initial asking price is insane!
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@SecretConveySol The 1st auction failed. They're going again in the weeks ahead.
I did tell the auctioneer that it wasn't a 700K house. Oh well.
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Client looking to buy from a well known modern auctioneer.
He has been chasing legal pack as auction is tomorrow.
They finally issue it today and the whole property is on a possessory title. No mention of it in the ad.
Seems intentional they released this day before auction
Secret Conveyancing Solicitor@SecretConveySol
Modern method of auction is a con Got a client who agreed to buy a 4 bed (as advertised), but as one room is a loft conversion with no building regs, lender has given 0 valuation Agent won’t give reservation fee back and have since changed the advert to read 3 bed and loft room
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@ZahrahAullyboc2 My client has around 12 properties and he had not heard of a possessory title, as to be fair, as a client you would only know if you’d come across one before.
They try and catch people out!
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The lack of trust between agents and solicitors is astonishing.
Got a sale competing today and the agent has emailed 3 times and rung twice to see if we have completed and each time I have said, I will let you know as soon as we do. 🤬
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@kernowsmernow You did indeed!
I was on a course once and the speaker was asking if there was a profession that fees are increased for if known, and half the room said teachers!
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@SecretConveySol I note from the email of 29 Jan that I did warn you! I note that it's half term. Is it a teacher as I predicted? If so......scary!!
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The same client has emailed me 4 times today already asking different questions and has just rung the office too.
Should have sacked this one off after having the below.
Secret Conveyancing Solicitor@SecretConveySol
Had an email from a client today asking what annual leave I have coming up 😮
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Not sure why clients are using AI to write emails to me, to ask a simple question.
Had one today that started with:
‘Dear {Lawyer’s Name}’.
We’re losing the ability to communicate!
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Had an estate agent email me at 09:00 this morning asking if we had sent funds for a completion.
How to sum up the current conveyancing world in one email.
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Modern method of auction is a con
Got a client who agreed to buy a 4 bed (as advertised), but as one room is a loft conversion with no building regs, lender has given 0 valuation
Agent won’t give reservation fee back and have since changed the advert to read 3 bed and loft room
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@ZahrahAullyboc2 That’s what I am going to do today now. They did not appreciate it when I told them that they have a clear misunderstanding of restrictions.
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@SecretConveySol Can you not apply to HMLR to disapply it?
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Assisted clients with equity release and dealt with the in-house legals for the lender
Restriction on title about giving notice which we did and gave the certificate
Keep getting threatened with legal action now as the body with the restriction has not removed it themselves 🙈
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