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Has anyone ever had a good experience with a Solcitior? (self.askuk)

submitted 1 year ago by peter to c/askuk

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Currently trying to buy a house and it's a nightmare, solicitors putting in minimal effort and getting things wrong, then taking forever to fix things. Any time I mention this to someone it seems they have a similar story.

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[–] TedZanzibar 2 points 1 year ago

The updates we get from them sounds like they are following up enquiries from the seller’s solicitors but who knows

We've just recently bought a house and were on pretty good terms with the people we bought from so we got more updates direct from them than from our solicitors. Literally any time our solicitor said they were chasing or following something up from the other end, their solicitor would be saying "no, no, we sent that across weeks ago" and vice versa. I'm pretty sure it's just standard practice to always blame the other side and they're all in on it, because there's no way for anyone to prove the hearsay.

Odds are the whole thing could be done and dusted inside a week but they stretch it out as long as possible so that they can charge a fortune.