Hi hopefully someone here can offer me some advice. I recieved a letter from the law society the other day to inform me that the solicitor dealing with the purchase of my home (and sale of previous) had closed and they were now holding my files. The letter stated
"We have carried out a review of your file and note that your title deeds are still on your file. These deeds should have been returned to the Bank of Ireland together with a Certificate of Title from your solicitor. It will now be necessary for you to nominate a new solicitor to take up your file and complete this outstanding work on you behalf.
We inclose herewith schedule of title deeds on your file for your assistance.
We note that we are also holding your file in relation to the sale of XXXX. There is a vacated mortgage on this file which should have been forwarded to XXXXXXXXX solicitor for purchasers of (previous home) XXXXX."
We bought this house over 2 years ago and of course expected all work in realation to the purchase and sale to have been completed which has obviously not been done. My question is
1) How much work is involved in completing the above and therefore how much can I expect to pay fot this to be done? Obviously its a priority as it concerns my home.
2) If its only a small amount of money to do the above i'll chalk it up to experiance but if we're talking lot is there any comeback on the monies I have already paid for this to be done as I can't afford to needlessly (IMO) pay twice for legal fees?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer me!
"We have carried out a review of your file and note that your title deeds are still on your file. These deeds should have been returned to the Bank of Ireland together with a Certificate of Title from your solicitor. It will now be necessary for you to nominate a new solicitor to take up your file and complete this outstanding work on you behalf.
We inclose herewith schedule of title deeds on your file for your assistance.
We note that we are also holding your file in relation to the sale of XXXX. There is a vacated mortgage on this file which should have been forwarded to XXXXXXXXX solicitor for purchasers of (previous home) XXXXX."
We bought this house over 2 years ago and of course expected all work in realation to the purchase and sale to have been completed which has obviously not been done. My question is
1) How much work is involved in completing the above and therefore how much can I expect to pay fot this to be done? Obviously its a priority as it concerns my home.
2) If its only a small amount of money to do the above i'll chalk it up to experiance but if we're talking lot is there any comeback on the monies I have already paid for this to be done as I can't afford to needlessly (IMO) pay twice for legal fees?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer me!