I can see now why you don’t see any first time buyers on the property market anymore. It actually has nothing to do with the “Double Dip” recession, the problem is Solicitor’s. I would even go so far as to say our Solicitor has made Estate Agents (Re-named Hell Hounds, explanation here) look like Guardian Angels/Kind Samaritans/Heroes/Gods, you get the general picture! Since we had our offer accepted on the house we’re buying and instructed our solicitor to proceed we’ve been met with nothing but Brick Walls and silence, the word USELESS springs to mind frequently. I’m curious to know what the role of a conveyancing solicitor entails because so far ours has had two holidays in nine weeks. This brings me to my next question what do you pay extortionate rates for? I tried to work it out and managed to break it down to this:

Basics:

Our Charges:	Cost [£]
For Your Purchase	465
For acting for your mortgage lender	100
No move no fee insurance	35
+ VAT	120.00
Total:	720.00

Extras:

Communications(e-mails/correspondence etc)	200
To be able to transfer deposit for mortgage direct to their bank account	30
Holiday to theCaribbean	1500
New Jimmy Choos	2000
New Audi	30000
Manicure	50

Which roughly totals £33,900,  Ah Ha mystery solved we are actually secretly funding her social life because I can assure you we are not paying for her Amazing communication skills, advice and expertise. In fact she’s probably not even qualified and has achieve her first class qualifications from fakequalificationsneededquick.com

On the plus side all this rage makes for great creative inspiration, the fact that I feel like I’m going to quadruple in size rip my clothing and turn bright green with rage every three minutes has created impressive progression for my current project, which is what I originally found when we had Estate Agent issues (Mentioned above) these characters make for great story arcs, incidentally the character I then based said Estate Agent on has since been killed off!!!!!