Our vendors’ solicitor is awful.
Vendors are abroad and have been instructing him from The US. At the start, we thought they (vendors) were being difficult as there were constant delays but it turns out that it’s the solicitor who has been delaying everything.
We were meant to close two months ago but he caused a significant delay and then went AWOL- he was on holiday and didn’t inform anyone.
He doesn’t “do” email so our poor solicitor has bent over backwards trying to manage postal correspondence from him. She has told me that he’s farcical and she would be tearing her hair out in our position.
He has an administrator who works part-time (Tues/Weds/Thurs) so, if something doesn’t get done by Thursday, we’re waiting nearly a week for an update.
He won’t speak to the estate agent. He seems to have a chip on his shoulder and will only communicate with our solicitor, or his clients.
Our solicitor has complained and he’s given her a very patronizing response. I’d say she’s rueing the day I ever asked her to manage this purchase for us.
We’ve complained to our vendors but they’re not listening. They’ve said they know he’s “old school” but they’re too far in with him now so just need to get it over the line.
We’ve threatened to pull out but they know it’s an empty threat- we went sale agreed 8 months ago (no chain either side) and the market here is absolutely booming so they would likely get more money if they put it back on the market.
Anyway, the end is in sight but I’m sooooo fucking frustrated with this man.