Good day people!
Having been dealt with so professionally by Philip Gill and co. (Mark McFadyen's team), I was more than a little disappointed to receive a phone call from a company down south. The purpose of this call was to ask me a few questions about my impending trust deed so they could get "the ball rolling" ! This was a "follow up call" to clarify a few details to enable this company (you know who they are Mark) to go ahead and "finalise" all my details and information. Now to explain: the company to whom I refer was the first company I rather naively approached about my financial situation and has offices in Glasgow and Manchester. I had forwarded to both offices information which each had requested: most of this info was repetition and that's when I decided to have a look at this forum. So in short, 3 months down the line (yes three months!) this company who I approached initially still hadn't got round to doing anything about my trust deed, which they promised would be pretty much dealt with within a "couple of weeks": this was from last December! Mark and co. dealt with everything in a matter of days........Now,to the point (at last!). I have always known that 3rd parties can't properly compete with the "One stop shops", i.e. everything being done under the one roof by only one or two practitioners. This now appears to be much more significant when the completion of important procedures such as trust deeds need to be addressed with some urgency. This way, the work being done under one roof as it were, ensures that the people dealing with your case keeps its finger on the pulse, and people like myself can have some peace of mind. Goodness knows, it's a difficult enough time for folk having to deal with this, without having to go over and over things time and time again. Even though I had informed this company of my intention to go elsewhere some months ago, they still hadn't heard from their Scottish colleagues of my decision not to go ahead with them. I had requested, again a couple of months ago, that they return all copies of bank statements etc. relevant to the trust deed procedure, but heard nothing. To be fair, the young lady who I spoke to in England returned my stuff the following day so well done to her. Again, one thing I have learned from this is NOT to jump in too quickly but to weigh up things before you commit: look out/beware of third party companies, and lastly, boy am I glad I found this forum!!
I do hope that anyone reading this and all the other posts singing the praises of their respective IP's , decide to go ahead and utilise the services of professionals such as these mentioned on this forum.
Cheers all
Kind Regards
Toby