What I found surprisingly useful was being able to look at the case tracker of the solicitor and respond to things before they even had a chance to send a letter or even email. Also very useful was physically going and handing in letters rather than posting as that cut out about a week of delay in the post.
The solicitor got the case on January 30th and completion on March 7th. Hand delivery stripped out about three or four weeks!
I just can’t wait to start buying next year…
What surprised me was just how many things were on the solicitor’s to do list. 175 up to today, so likely topping out around 180.
Keeping on top of their tracker and hand delivery of letters really speeded it up.
Turns out that, contrary to what Nationwide said, you can pay up to £100k to a new payee, so long as you’ve set them up with the card reader. But, no card reader required for the payment!
They didn’t like that a lot of my Income comes from Investments and Dividends. So i’m having my income verified.
I was surprised that my mortgage solicitor didn’t even have an option on their source of funds form for SIPP. Still, perhaps solicitors still live in the 20th century 
My sellers solicitors misplaced a document and waited an entire month to request it again. A month wasted, just like that 
Mine didn’t appear to do stupid stuff but I think keeping on top of their task tracking really kept things moving along.
Mine didn’t have a way to track like that, but were generally good a kept me in the loop. The sellers solicitors were the problem.
Then here’s one just for you- the Japan Airlines prepaid MasterCard. Vertical design, rather busy.
It’s multi-currency which is nice but the rates aren’t very competitive. What is nice is that the card can be used instead of a boarding pass for domestic flights- tap at security, tap at gate. Seat info prints out on a little slip at security.
It’s a very Japanese design aesthetic for sure.
Reckon it needs to say JAL a few more times
Just got a new phone and I couldn’t be bothered re-adding all 12 cards from my old phone, so keeping it simple for now I guess 
I like the design I just find it feels flimsy.
One good thing about embossed cards is they felt sturdier and thicker.
Is it your first premier card? My card isn’t for a new account so it might be that they only send the slide-out packaging to new customers to welcome them to premier.
