Great thats 3 visitors. I don't think they are from Istanbul, She is has a great job high up in Fethiye, her husband works all over Turkey something to do with security. it is 3 villas sharing a garden, Tapu states we have 1/4 neighbour has 1/4 and they (the trouble ones?) have 1/2, we had the choice of the 3 when we purchased, their villa (the one with 1/2 share) is smaller than ours, a settee chair and tv in the lounge and no dining area, or it was until they started putting on extensions and raising the roof by 6ft.
After our purchase the builder lived in the 1/2 share property for 6 months then his wife wanted bigger property. Since Early February 2004 we have maintained the garden ourselves, the builder was happy for us to do it, this has continued to date. the garden has an electric box for the garden should we (all the neighbours) want to install lighting or swimming pool, again we all agreed we did not need it, yet if we wanted to now we could not as it is fenced. The garden was hard landscaped paid for by Gordon and myself to make it easier for me to maintain it, they the 'neighbours from hell' who only purchased April 2013 have now ripped it up and given it away.
I should have seen problems from the start of their purchase, when I was in the garden tidying up, she came out and told me it was hers to clean, me being soft thought she was telling me that when the building work had finished she would clean it, oh how wrong was I.
They have upset the other Turkish neighbours, but they are very young and intimidated, but they agree with me and my actions, their family live nearby and I think helped the young couple to purchase the home, so I gather they have their names on the Tapu, they too are not happy, yet they are taking another tack, me, I am going for the jugular.
Getting back to agents, when the smaller villa was being sold we would watch the agent showing clients around, they would point to our driveway and tell them that they owned it, also telling them they could make the property bigger. The agency was Turkish, and staffed by Turks, they just wanted a sale and this neighbour fell for it. So when the fence went up they wanted to fence us in by fencing the driveway too, giving them 2 drives, ensuring that they had what was written on the Tapu 1/2, they probably would have put a gate so we could get to our front door, the only thing stopping them was Gordon, boy can he argue in Turkish.
So, would a fully licensed estate agent be liable for any false information? what powers or safeguards if any would a license give? Would I have been able to sue or take to task the agent for falsely selling by not giving the correct information and causing a problem? I don't think so.
A licence is just stating that the agent has been trained and certified to give bull****.
