What a week! so much seemed to happen in such a short space of time, culminating with another outage at a Bank on the last Friday and the last day of a very busy month.
A friend in a local firm called me to ask me if I was having difficulty logging onto the banking system, as he knew we banked with the same bank. And then as the emails start to pile up, you realise that what should have been a nice easy Friday, everything organised, all monies in and ready to move, suddenly descends into chaos.
But you know what? It reminds me that if you work well with the other conveyancer, you find a way to get your clients to move. Licence to occupy, confirmation as to where the monies are and how far up the chain they had got; check that all clients are happy with the proposals, and they can still move.
It is hard work but as I have said before, one of the skills of being a good conveyancer is to take what each day throws at you and do the best for your clients. I know my clients today know I did my best for them and there was minimum disruption, and even though I spent some considerable time in agreeing how they could all move, the banking system was back up and running by lunchtime.
All I can hope for is that we don’t have the same at the end of next month…
This is written by a real high street conveyancer who wishes to remain anonymous. Read more in Today’s Conveyancer every week.
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Which makes me query why we can’t allow clients in under license every day?
Suddenly it’s ok?
Yet par for the course day in, day out is to let clients and the moving companies sit and rot for hours on end ‘waiting for keys’.
Again, however we see that when the day is up-ended for Conveyancers and transactions are threatened…. Boom! Suddenly ‘we all work together to get clients in under license’.
And today……nope……Mrs Smith, her 2 cats and her moving crew can waste 3 hours sat around ‘waiting for keys’.
Only to then work long, long into the evening after her conveyancer has gone home.
You can see the hypocrisy here?
If you can’t, there’s no hope for you.
*My reply is NOT written at/to the HSC. My reply is written to ALL of conveyancing.
There is very little point doing a license to occupy when people are still physically in the property and moving out. A license to occupy is a matter of last resort and there are risks with it but there are benefits. People seem to very quickly forget that there are hundreds of thousands of pounds at play with little to no room for error. Frankly, the reply written by one Matt Faizey seems incredibly ill informed and reads like there is little knowledge of Conveyancing.
I’m ill informed?
Exactly how do you come to the conclusion that people are ‘still moving out’?
If you were remotely well informed with relevant experience you would know that the context of my comments relates only to after 1pm.
Furthermore does not need to allow for people not having moved out because this is barely an issue.
The issue relates to the issue of all other parties having fulfilled their obligations. Only then to have to sit and wait for hours due to conveyancing idiocy/malpractice/incompetence.
A problem in existence for decades.
Your reply does absolutely nothing to rubbish my response to the HSC’s diary entry.
The statistics and lived experience of millions of movers (both referring to clients, and moving companies). For decades.
Exactly what does the amount involved in the transaction have to do with it? It matters not if you’re shifting £50k or £5m. Your preparation, and execution on the day is the same.
That Conveyancers can’t get their house in order and manage to achieve this in timely fashion is a matter of competence.
If you wish to get into facts, and data as opposed to slurious rubbishing of my reply without actually backing yourself up then I’m happy to.
Bear in mind I’ll link all the material I’ve published before resulting in Conveyancers skulking off in deathly silence.
The core facts are stark
You fail, day in, day out to comply with your requirement to complete for the time in the contract.
You fail broadly to ensure chains are completed in a timely manner.
It’s a fact that broadly completion day is ruined and stressful for hundreds of thousands of movers every year because of this.
That some chains (teeny minority), involving competent, switched on, and empathetic Conveyancers are fully done and dusted by 1pm proves this.
If you’d like a public, live recorded debate straight to YouTube…I’m game.
You’re welcome to make me look ignorant, uneducated, naive and lacking.
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