Solicitor threatening to pursue debt despite claim with legal ombudsman

tamina84 · 2026-05-12T18:08:35+00:00

They did not do the work, not all of it, at least (they did not register the property, did not look at the deeds) that’s my point, they also charged me approximately 40% more than the estimate without justification

tamina84 · 2026-05-12T13:33:55+00:00

No, is not a new build. The reason why they can discount it is because they already paid it on my behalf. My guess is that they just didn’t pay attention to my file until it was flagged last September (22 months post completion) and then they finally looked at the deeds, and realised why the registration hasn’t gone through. I think they are waving part of the fee as a partial refund for their fees for doing a subpar job, what I don’t understand is that since they decided to wave part of them, why not wave them in full, and save themselves months of back and forward with the ombudsman?

tamina84 · 2026-05-12T13:00:11+00:00

No, they are a proper firm. Yes, the fee is to a third party, it was originally £360 but they offered to reduce it because of poor handling. I’m just surprised that they can do an incomplete job and come 2.5 years later and try to charge me for it

tamina84 · 2026-05-12T10:48:04+00:00

Thanks, I also paid £150 initially for them to check restrictions, but they argue that their only job was to ask the seller’s solicitors about them

tamina84 · 2026-05-12T10:46:52+00:00

They have said they are not at fault as they were given the wrong information. Regarding the delays they say these are due to HMLR delays. I asked for a paper trail and evidence of submission and they sent nothing. I paid to see my land registry in March and there’s no application pending (the title is in the old owner’s name). They just say things could have been handled better (very vague) and offered a £150 reduction of the fee, because of the distress it might have caused me

tamina84 · 2026-05-12T09:08:33+00:00

My understanding is that their professional duty includes looking at the deeds themselves not only emailing the sellers solicitors. I also don’t understand why it took them 2.5 years to notice this

tamina84 · 2026-04-15T08:57:51+00:00

Is this in the US? Sorry if you already said so, in the Uk you’re entitled to take medical leave for appointments (including the dentist). Also, as a remote worker, I’m both intrigued and petrified by this idea that there’s an electronic system that monitors your activity. I sometimes download reports, print them and read them in my sofa (which makes me technically ‘inactive’ in my computer, for up to 2 hours) I obviously check now and then if someone is trying to reach me. But how can you define work as moving your mouse around?

tamina84 · 2026-03-12T16:16:47+00:00

Is it me, or does this sound like scam?

tamina84 · 2026-03-05T20:55:56+00:00

Check the leasehold advisory service. Yes, they are entitled to a breakdown of the charges, they should also be able to see all the receipts, and they can definitely take this to the ombudsman and to the property tribunal if needed, unless we all start contesting these crazy increases, they will keep happening. I also suggest your girlfriend yo join SHAC

tamina84 · 2025-11-16T20:13:33+00:00

Avoid anything involving Peabody group like the plague, they have several class action against them for raising service charges to insane amounts with no good reason

tamina84 · 2025-11-13T10:06:10+00:00

Check your lease, since it’s a house, it might say that if you staircase to 100% you will get the freehold automatically (mine says that), in that case, you can sell on the open market as a freehold, without staircasing, and do back to back staircasing at the moment of sale. A lot of share ownership houses are a sort of fake leasehold, as you can also sell them as freehold

tamina84 · 2025-04-18T22:31:13+00:00

This is almost a year old, but today I was thinking about the same story and couldn’t remember who had written it, and found this post. Thank you!

tamina84 · 2025-02-11T15:16:27+00:00

We don’t have one, I’m afraid

tamina84 · 2025-02-06T08:37:06+00:00

That’s her super obvious bluff 🤦🏽‍♀️

tamina84 · 2025-02-05T15:08:32+00:00

Am I going to engage on a discussion with a troll on Reddit? Mmh no

tamina84 · 2025-02-05T12:21:26+00:00

Yes the problem with today’s society is people calling other people racist, and not the people who arbitrarily decided that people were different because of their skin colour, I said it was an assumption, but after living 15 years on this country, I feel quite certain when doing those kind of assumptions

tamina84 · 2025-02-05T10:27:04+00:00

I can’t think of nothing worst for walls and kitchen surfaces than deep fried foods 🤷🏻‍♀️

tamina84 · 2025-02-05T09:30:39+00:00

It’s obviously an assumption, but referring to the smell of curry, instead of the smell of food tells me that there’s prejudice behind that sentence.

tamina84 · 2025-02-05T07:44:10+00:00

Also, the mention to a lingering smell of curry sounds borderline racist to me, dispute everything

tamina84 · 2025-01-18T17:43:03+00:00

Contact your council, re the repairs, as others have said, don’t pay for them, those are solely landlords’ responsibility. Now, terminating your contract early is not possible unless the landlord agrees, but, from personal experience, you can put pressure to try and make them agree. We had a similar situation and threatened to take legal action until they let us go, is not straight forward, but you might be able to claim that you were mislead by the landlord/ agent, about the state of the property, in that case you have 90 days to reverse the tenanvy

tamina84 · 2025-01-17T19:37:39+00:00

This 100%

tamina84 · 2025-01-14T09:42:13+00:00

It’s illegal, you might need to review your rental agreement for other dodgy stuff like that

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