Grrrrrrr!
I'm getting so fucked off about the effort it seems to take to get even the simplest things done in this whole property saga. Between solicitors and freeholders and estate agents, there appears to be no point at which someone won't gum up the works. I get calls from both buying and selling estate agents chasing things the solicitors are supposed to have done, I hear the most ridiculous stuff that the freeholder on the selling property has failed to do from the solicitor, and the whole mess turns into a huge round of finger-pointing.
And I, who am paying money to many of these people to do their jobs and make my life easier, end up sorting it all out.
The latest and greatest is that the freeholders appear never to have updated the deeds to my flat to show that actually, I bought 100% of it, rather than the 40% that would have applied if it was still shared-ownership. And note that I bought in 2000, from someone who had previously bought 100% herself, so this has been wrong for at least seven years.
This move is clearly going to be the death of me.
May 29th, 2007 - 14:59
Doesn’t sound like fun at all.
Mind you, I’m still chasing the deeds from our solicitor, two months after completing the purchase.
They’re all c**ts, I tell you.