Is everyone incompetant?

Well I'm buying my first home.

I got a letter from my solicitor detailing what's included with the
contract, it metions looking forward to reciving my cheque for the search
fees.
Problem is I'd handed them over in person seven days previously. A week of
search time wasted because a note hadn't been made on the file.

The (former) building society website is dreadful. When you go into a full
blown mortgage enquiry from a mortgage promise the internet banking side of
the site displays "This application has expired, please make another"
instead of refering you to the (non integrated) mortgage enquirer website.
If you phone you get through to an operator immediately. Who puts you in a
queue, which says "Why not check on our website". I'll say why not because
it's not updated very often and is usually several days behind reality.
Today I recieve a letter saying I havn't filled in a direct debit mandate.
Yet it doesn't ask for the declaration I sent in the same envelope as the
mandate.

When should "Sold subject to contract" be displayed outside the house? I
put an offer in a week or two back and it still says for sale?

Grr.


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