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Response to Shortfall Advise

from Lee (repossession@bigfoot.com)
Glad it's sorted. If you - or anyone else - has a problem navigating the site, please, please let me know and I'll try to work out what it is and fix it.

I think the CAB have got a lot better. They have an information pack for repossessees facing shortfall demands that includes sample letters you can use. Like most counsellors they tend to concentrate more on how to cope with it and minimise the claims without actively trying to find out what really happened and use that to reduce the size of the claim.

Most solicitors are awful. If you read the letters from lenders' and customers' lawyers on the site, you're left wondering how the heck they justify their fees. This does not make it easy to point readers to good lawyers but where I've had recommendations I do name them in the Who Helps? section.

I'd very much like to put up a list of good mortgage-specialist solicitors along the lines of the one I've done for specialist brokers. Unfortunately, very few lawyers seem to have public email addresses let alone web-sites so this may have to wait.

I'm aware that some lawyers find the site's approach a little antagonistic, but it's more that the site is aimed at people whose self-confidence needs some buttressing. I invite any lawyers who specialise in this area to get in touch with me and move this on though. There is clearly a need.

Lee

(posted 9069 days ago)

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