Bronte, the story hasn't changed at all. I said I expected to receive some kind of bill from him as during negotiations he would say "I'm on your side as well"....which lead me to believe he would send us a bill. We, however, never felt he was on our side as he put it. He didn't suggest the vendor may accept our house as payment he told us he would, but how would we even know if it was his suggestion or the vendors own idea??? Its very murky I admit.
During negotiations over money we very much felt it was him representing the vendor and us representing ourself. The way negotiations went was the vendor wanted our house plus x amount, so x was the figure to be negotiated. He didn't put a value on our house , we did that directly with the vendor for our mortgage purposes.
If he had sent us a reasonable bill in the proper manner we would have paid him, I have never not paid a bill and I don't like having enemies. However, he sent a bill through the vendors solicitor, who then passed it on to our solicitor. Was he perhaps thinking our solicitor might settle up before we even saw he bill?? It was the first our solicitor had heard from him, she has not one document from him relating to his claimed selling our property. He did not try to negotiate his fee with us after sending us the bill even though we told him to his face we were not happy with it, he went straight ahead and sent us a solicitors letter.
So, back to my original question should I offer him something or let the courts decide???