It took over five months and a lot of pressure from myself, estate agents and the buyers’ solicitor to get Scott Rees to complete a simple conveyancing in which there was no chain. During most of the last month there seemed to be no-one in the company who had any idea what was going on.
That’s not the worst part. Over two months after completion, Scott Rees informed me there was a problem with the sale. The management company had refused to register the new owner because of a legal dispute I’d had with them. Scott Rees then said they could represent me in the dispute for an initial fee of £2000, if I wished. Surprised by their apparent ignorance of an issue covered in the leaseholder information form I had completed for them, I asked where my liability was since I had been entirely honest and fully forthcoming with Scott Rees who acted as my legal representative throughout. For some reason, Scott Rees’s “Compliance Officer” declined to answer my question. As I expected, over a year later there has been no legal follow-up from buyer or management company – which disappoints me as I would like to see whether Scott Rees would treat a judge with the same silent disdain as it treated me, its customer.