Yes, Ken Hastie was on top of our conveyancing all of the time. Phone calls, letters and face to faces; he was brilliant. Sadly he passed away a few years ago
Conveyancing - exchanging on a house
- Thread starter HellsBells
- Start date
D
Deleted member 5265
Guest
You can place an order for a moving day tea which I will hand cook and bring round.
Either:
a) shepherds pie, or
b) farty veggie shepherds pie, or
c) my legendary fish curry
Similar happened to us. The experts across every party were useless and continuously moved the goalposts. We eventually just said to the seller's Estate Agent 'if we don't have the keys in two weeks we're pulling out.' Their response was an essay on why it was impossible and completely unrealistic and unreasonable. After a simple reply back reiterating our position, two weeks later we had the keys and were moving in.
Your fish curry is ace.
D
Deleted member 5265
Guest
Thank you. I don’t think you’ve tried the farty veggie shepherds pie which is also ace, but fish curry it is.
Little question for those with conveyancing experience.
At a month into the process would you expect the seller's conveyancer to know that the buyer is paying cash?
At a month into the process would you expect the seller's conveyancer to know that the buyer is paying cash?
monkeytassle
Striker
Yes. They should have been told the details of the mortgage lender and borrowing amount. In this case lack of both but yes. They ought to know.
The estate agent usually asks for proof of funds such as your savings statement showing you have your deposit and your mortgage offer before proceeding, if you're paying cash I would imagine they would want to see proof you have it. Then I would imagine this would be passed to the solicitor.
We are going through the process right now and the estate agent asked for proof of funds before taking the house off the market and my solicitor asked for the same information.
monkeytassle
Striker
I would have told the estate agent to piss off
It was his successor (who took over his business on his recommendation) that I had all my trouble with.
They would not take the house off the market until we showed them proof we had the deposit, I had about 80% of it plus my mortgage offer but they still wouldn't budge, it took me about 2 weeks to get my deposit together but my broker started the process anyway and arranged the valuation, etc and I got a solicitor to start the process. So by the time I had it to show them, we already had a head start.
To be honest it pissed me off a little.
monkeytassle
Striker
Aye that'd piss me off to be fair. Nowt to do with them.
That’s what my broker said and why he started the process.
Simoneinzaghi
Full Back
It’s got everything to do with them as they have what you want so they call the shots.
monkeytassle
Striker
Are you an estate agent?
D
Deleted member 361
Guest
It’s infuriating but mainly because everyone wants a cut of cash and has to make everything hard work to kind of justify it
Goat Eyes
Striker
Routine that.
Simoneinzaghi
Full Back
No just stating a fact mate. Nothing personal
We’ve only ever moved twice and I don’t remember any problems either time. First one we were first time buyers and the vendors already had their new house to move in so no chain. Second one we had cash buyers for our place and the house we were buying had been empty for 2 years as the old bloke had died and his wife, the vendor, moved back to Malaysia.
