In the process
We were expecting to move during the week between Xmas & New Year (Tuesday 30th), as we thought everything was done. Both of us had booked time off, ready to go.

Monday 22nd, we get a phone call from the people buying our house solicitors saying that in a document which our solicitor had checked through, she hadn't initialled a change of date which she had written wrong. "No problem", my wife replies - "is everything ok"?

"No, and she's not in until January the 8th, so we can't do anything until then."

Thing is, all the solicitors work in the same firm, in the same branch, in offices next to each other. And when my wife went into the office to complain that afternoon to the Senior Partner, there was our solicitor, in her office. Gits.

But this pales to the quote of £2300 to move a double bed, piano and a settee 150m down the road to our new house, including £100 to rent a set of "settee cloths" to stop marks. No thank you, Britannia.
(The Kitchen Sink, Tue 6 Jan 2015, 16:27, 1 reply)

I hope your solicitor grovelled
and made the changes...
( finnbar has officially retired, Tue 6 Jan 2015, 17:02, closed)