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    A Quick Rant About Solicitors

    Bastards. Why do they take so long to do what, on the face of it, should be a quick job?

    Mine's okay, he's keeping me up to date, but theirs are just dragging their feet over everything.

    Edit: And no doubt it'll cost me an arm and a leg for all this arsing around.

    Rant over.
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    Re: A Quick Rant About Solicitors

    When I was working at a hedge fund I was very greatful for the legal profession and estate agents.

    No matter how much of a ***t i felt i was, I knew there where worse.... much much worse.

    So for that reason, I for one like Solicitors.
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    Re: A Quick Rant About Solicitors

    Don't get me wrong, without the assistance of my solicitor I would be absolutely nowhere. It's the lot on the other side who keep requesting every last shred of paperwork they possibly can, week after week.

    As you say, I'd be far worse off without them but I'm bored of how much this is dragging on now.
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    Re: A Quick Rant About Solicitors

    Sadly most people opt for the solicitors who work off the back of estate agents. These will usually work in a warehouse full of desks and legal execs with one or two qualified solicitors for each team.

    Every time they (the other side) ring up, they'll get a different person who doesn't know the whole story.

    Quite often your friendly local solicitor is much, much cheaper and twice as efficient.
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    Re: A Quick Rant About Solicitors

    Quote Originally Posted by mycarsavw View Post
    Sadly most people opt for the solicitors who work off the back of estate agents. These will usually work in a warehouse full of desks and legal execs with one or two qualified solicitors for each team.

    Every time they (the other side) ring up, they'll get a different person who doesn't know the whole story.

    Quite often your friendly local solicitor is much, much cheaper and twice as efficient.
    Couldn't agree more - this is exactly my experience.

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    Re: A Quick Rant About Solicitors

    Quote Originally Posted by mycarsavw View Post
    Sadly most people opt for the solicitors who work off the back of estate agents. These will usually work in a warehouse full of desks and legal execs with one or two qualified solicitors for each team.

    Every time they (the other side) ring up, they'll get a different person who doesn't know the whole story.

    Quite often your friendly local solicitor is much, much cheaper and twice as efficient.
    Last time I bought a house, the estate agent pushed hard, not just to get me to use a solicitor he recommended but a mortgage broker he recommended, despite being told the solicitor was a family friend and the mortgage deal already in place.

    I have come across some atrocious solicitors, including one that I complained (to little effect) to the Law Society about, but if you think I have a low view of some solicitors, you ought to hear my view of estate agents like that one.

    I will not, EVER, on principle, use a professional service where that professional has a greater reason to act in the interests of the person "recommending" them than they do to act in mine. And a solicitor an estate agent recommends? Not a hope in hell.

    In fact, I very nearly walked away from the property rather than deal with that agent. I did end up doing an end-run round him and talking direct to the vendor, after we jointly caught the agent lying about the offer.

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    Re: A Quick Rant About Solicitors

    Perhaps I should be glad then, that, thanks to the peculiar little cul-de-sac of conveyancing that I'm sitting in, I've managed to pretty much avoid any real estate agents at all. The closest thing I've come to one is the irritating young lad who showed me round the flats and he's stayed out of the business end of things.

    I think I've been quite lucky in that I found a very nice, helpful IFA for the mortgage and and equally good local solicitor for the actual conveyancing. I just wish I could say the same about everyone else involved.
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    Re: A Quick Rant About Solicitors

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    I will not, EVER, on principle, use a professional service where that professional has a greater reason to act in the interests of the person "recommending" them than they do to act in mine. And a solicitor an estate agent recommends? Not a hope in hell.
    in my (very close to home) experience, the estate agency is often only in business for the mortgage comission and not the sale of the house.

    they do push hard ... it's their business.. and as you can and do do... you gotta walk sometimes,

    What's a SHAME is that the VENDOR doesn't know the agent is putting off potential buyers by being so hard on this line.

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