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Sir BoD

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So the saga of my buying a house is more off and on than Maddie Hayes and David Addison Jr, I've got to the point (again) of having my bid accepting, my next step is a solicitor for the conveyancing.

ORJ are out of the window as they want to charge £1,300. I have heard a few good reports about Mark Redler, but does anyone have recent experience with buying a house and using a Stafford based solicitor and would recommend them? Cheers ears.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
My experience is 8 years old and documented here somewhere. Janet Grundy was very good, but no idea where she is now. I paid under £700.
 
Cue

Cue

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My broker recommended Grindy's, they're Stoke based but they were incredibly good and kept on top of hassling up the chain when the chain was being slow as hell to agree on a completion date.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Cue said:
My broker recommended Grindy's, they're Stoke based but they were incredibly good and kept on top of hassling up the chain when the chain was being slow as hell to agree on a completion date.
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In comparison my vendors solicitor was Grindys, they were shite. Couldn't be bothered to reply in a timely fashion, basic requests were taking a wek just for a reply to say they haven't got the information. As I said though it was 8 years ago.
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Local solicitors are pretty poor in their entirety. Therefore you might as well spend as little as possible to get a crap service, if you must go local.

If it was me, I'd be getting quotes from the two solicitors in Penkridge.
 
jacs

jacs

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We've just renewed the lease on a property we own and used Chris Clark who were pretty good.
 
Rowley Reg

Rowley Reg

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Not sure I agree with most local solicitors being poor - We used Julia Hagan of Hand Morgan and Owen - I think was around 850 - and we would definitely recommend. We completed on time, and she did a good job with searches and a difficult issue with a tree preservation order. If you live in Stafford then I think it's handy to have someone local in case you need to drop paperwork off or go in to sign documents. Despite their recent data loss issues, we're also staying with Stafford Railway, which is 3 minutes walk from the solicitors. As previous business owners we always choose and support local rather than chains wherever we can. The people we purchased from used cheap conveyancer solicitors - and ended-up making a complaint to the Law Society about them, as they had to chase them 4 times a day to get a reply, with many of their phone calls going unanswered.
 
Cue

Cue

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tek-monkey said:
In comparison my vendors solicitor was Grindys, they were shite. Couldn't be bothered to reply in a timely fashion, basic requests were taking a wek just for a reply to say they haven't got the information. As I said though it was 8 years ago.
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May depend on which one you get really. Our sellers went with Beaumont Legal and their guy was the epitome of absolutely useless, but he was also a trainee and disappeared (let go?) half way through the process. It got a lot faster after that.
 
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Sir BoD

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Thanks everyone. Well, I bit the bullet and went with Mark Redler (some will probably want that bullet to help shoot me with) but he came as a recommendation from two separate sources and also a nod from the broker too. £940 all in.
 
ATJ

ATJ

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Question - I used Frisby's when I bought my house several years ago and they still have the documents. Some internet searching today has come back with a defunct twitter, a defunct website, a defunct facebook page, suggestions that they may have moved from Eastgate Street to Penkridge and other redirects suggesting they're now part of ORJ.
Can anyone shed any light?
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
ATJ said:
Question - I used Frisby's when I bought my house several years ago and they still have the documents. Some internet searching today has come back with a defunct twitter, a defunct website, a defunct facebook page, suggestions that they may have moved from Eastgate Street to Penkridge and other redirects suggesting they're now part of ORJ.
Can anyone shed any light?
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Mmmm - https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05606705/insolvency ?
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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ATJ said:
Ah, bugger. In that case how would one go about getting their deeds?
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Someone could have 'inherited' the business - ask the administrator..?

The deeds shouldn't be too much of an issue in reality, though some people may like to inflate the 'problem' for you.
 
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