I am about to shatter into a thousand tiny pieces.
In brief- sold our house in september- currently renting the same house off the people who brought it from us.
Still waiting for a completion date to move into new house- it has all been a very long drawn out stressful affair so fair.
Anyway- DP rings our solicitor last week for an update - it appears that the man who was dealing with our conveyencing has 'left'. Another member of the 'firm' looked through our file and has discovered the following
- we have paid no rent on this house for the last three months (despite the original solicitor saying he had forwarded the funds from the money that he is holding for us)
- there appears to be no tenancy agreement on file (despite me signing one and faxing it back the same day- back in beg oct)
- There is a 'contract' that has mine and Dp's signatures on (alledgedly)- this contract states that we agree to pay an 'arrangement' fee to some firm of ÂŁ2050 (which just happens to be the same amount as stamp duty).
Dp contacted the financial adviser who recommended the solicitors and he has alluded to the original solicitor 'possibly not paying the stamp duty and transferring that money into another acct' (for his own gain??- i suspect that the financial adviser is also in on it)
i dont know what to do. is this something quite normal (but dodgy) within this industry???
what do we do next?????