TheSecretConveyancer

Deliberately stopping people from moving house by pointlessly shuffling bits of paper around. From above the chippy on the High Street.

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Monday, 902am
Receptionist: Mr Smith is on the phone, did you get the email he sent you yesterday.
Me: Yes
Receptionist: Do you want me to tell him anything else?
Me: No.

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After a bit of time off I return to the office to find we now have a third bin in the office kitchen, a food waste bin, which should be emptied and disposed of by an approved food waste disposal company.
Alternatively we can just bag it up and stick it in the public litter bin...

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@lanarkboy @simonhaslam8 @propertylaw1925 @Scott_Wortley If you were buying cash it’s your prerogative to make that decision but if you were getting a mortgage your conveyancer has to sign off on the basis of lender requirements

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@propertylaw1925 @simonhaslam8 @lanarkboy @Scott_Wortley No we don’t

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@GoonerGirl1969 Chin up nearly there
We got the bulk done today just a couple of stragglers

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@_puppycatt @DrRJWebb @Cray_tweets1 @doctor_dru_ No idea, good point. I’m thankfully not ft resi I have a mixed caseload with some commercial, landowners, small developers etc
I could not do an 80 file fixed fee full on resi job. Got someone who works for me and does that, I mean the crap she puts up with is ridiculous

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@DrRJWebb @Cray_tweets1 @doctor_dru_ Average caseload is about 80 files. Almost all conveyancing is fixed fee not hourly rates, so it’s high volume, low margin. A fixed fee wont get your conveyancers undivided attention for the 4 or 5 months it takes, that’s the way it has to be unless you want to pay hourly rates…

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@DrRJWebb @Cray_tweets1 @doctor_dru_ Interesting thread! We spend a LOT of time being chased, by clients and agents, and at the request of both chasing up other people. Some days the chasing and updating takes up a few hours. And ultimately I don’t think it achieves much.

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@Raycrud Classic, did you?

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I do residential conveyancing but split my time between resi and commercial property
You'd think it would be the commercial lot that can "start an argument in an empty room"
Not all actually, resi solicitors are definitely more pointlessly confrontational

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@dontdelay Is it because they're selfish and entitled?

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@proptechpioneer @integraps And where are the banks in this? Im forced to treat money already in the banking system as dodgy until shown otherwise?

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@integraps @proptechpioneer ID is easy enough, proof of funds is a pain in the arse. How many people just have one savings account they’ve never touched for six months. Not many it turns out, so you end up having to through a shed load of bank statements.

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@taylorA841 @SimonApperley Done it once, difficult once you’re instructed. Try and weed out the awkward ones before taking them on. Kind of get a nose for it but it doesn’t always work.

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@jhrbroad @BristOliver @lydiajo I’ve got one of their umbrellas
Surprisingly good quality for a freebie…..

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@HappyConveying Is being cheery part of the job now?

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@SecretConveySol best crack on then...

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@karenbaker144 I guess that puts a slightly different slant on it, but raises the question where was the supervision and oversight, and has the firm been hauled over the coals for lack thereof?

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Article in today's Law Society Gazette:
Solicitor acts for buyer and bank
He fails to register the purchase and mortgage and thus breaches his undertaking to the bank to register the mortgage
He is negligent and is sacked
So far so (not so) good, but perhaps understandable 1/6

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@Torryder I’m going with none and a lot?

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@2022kbkb Haha about right

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Developers solicitors: we will supply searches
Me: right oh, thanks
Contract pack received
Searches are dated 2018....