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Frances Marshall

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From: Frances Marshall 25 November 2019 10:02 AM

Part of the problem is that people try to move out of one house and into another on the same day. I always advise my clients to do what Armed Forces personnel do, which is to have the movers pack up the day before, clean the place, and go and stay with friends or in a hotel overnight before they move in to the new place on completion day.

From: Frances Marshall 29 April 2019 12:28 PM

If the conveyancer you recommend is that good, you shouldn't need any other incentive to recommend them. My firm doesn't pay or accept referral fees for anything. My clients know that if they've been recommended to me, it's because the agent thinks I'm good.

From: Frances Marshall 01 March 2019 12:26 PM

I seem to remember that the Law Society's guidance is that we need to ask our client's permission specifically to draw down the money a day early, as this will cost them an extra, say, £11 of interest on a £200,000 mortgage (assuming they have an initial fixed-rate deal). I'm not saying that's a reason not to do it (I also usually recommend that clients move out the day before and stay elsewhere overnight), but the professional rules need to change to reflect reality and good practice.

From: Frances Marshall 03 October 2018 10:03 AM

It would also be helped by discouraging clients from moving on a Friday - I don't know anyone who's only taken a weekend to unpack everything, having done any necessary redecoration first; and most civvies only move house about once every ten years, so it's worth giving up a few days to it. My other top tip (having moved house myself at least 28 times in 50 years) is to encourage clients to move out the day before, let the removals company take their furniture away, and having pushed the vacuum cleaner around, go and stay in a hotel or with friends for the night before completion. When they're spending hundreds of thousands on a house, £120 for a hotel room is chicken feed. All my clients who've taken that advice say it's the best advice they've ever had, and they'll tell everyone who'll listen that that's the way to do things. Even if it all goes horribly wrong, the chances are that the friend or hotel will have a room available for the following night, too.

From: Frances Marshall 03 December 2017 19:00 PM

"The survey defines time to sell as the period from when a property is advertised for sale until it is listed as Under Offer, Sold STC or Sold and its details are removed from the market." So nothing to do with the conveyancing process between acceptance of the offer and completion.

From: Frances Marshall 20 November 2017 10:42 AM

More like an excuse to help slow banks, Tim.

From: Frances Marshall 19 May 2016 10:22 AM

Apart from the bit about referral fees, I agree with every word.

From: Frances Marshall 25 February 2016 10:40 AM

This solicitor has personally moved house 28 times in her life - far more times than any removals man I've ever met has done it. "Little regard for the practicality of moving house..."?

From: Frances Marshall 22 December 2015 10:27 AM

In my experience, this is almost never the reason for a delay. Conveyancers want to finish their work on a Friday and go home as early as possible, just as removals people do.

From: Frances Marshall 22 December 2015 10:22 AM

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