Since our return it's been a bit hetic to say the least....so haven't been updating my blog as much as I would have liked to...but I have been doing my research on the Internet about the company we bought from... I know what your thinking...isn't it a bit too late to do this now? Surely we should have checked them out first before even thinking about signing on the dotted line..



Well the thing is the deal was done on the last day...yes the day before we flew back to UK...we saw the villa we liked...agreed on the price...went to the company's office Harmony Homes in Bodrum.. which by the way the offices were awesome..proper contemporary ...quality furniture the works.. ... plus as we were introduced to him by Caroline from Euroland who we had met back in October..who we felt we could trust... we just went for it...because we all loved the villa it was exactly what we were looking for and the location was excellent.. Gumusuluk a little fishing village on the Peninsula..

Mustafa from Harmony Homes...sales manager was who we dealt with...he took us into there fully equiped baord room...got everyone drinks and we started our negotiating with him for the villa...

We were there for about 5 hours discussing the sale...from the finishing to the Tapu..Habitation Certificate to the payment terms..

Paid them the initial £2,000 deposit for reserving the villa and agreed to send the rest of the money as soon as we got back home..but there was one thing the dreaded Habitation Certificate..
Harmony Homes Bodrum are the owners of all the villas on the complex (total of 9) so it wasn't a very large complex and they have applied for the individual habitation certificates but not had them back.. also the cost involved in doing the necessary checks and transferring the title deeds to my brothers name (Tapu) was going to be covered by Harmony Homes..so as far as we are concerned the deal was good.

We signed the contract and left after several hours feeling proud to be the owners of our new villa, and we agreed to visit it one final time before we flew back to the UK the next day.

As you can imagine we were really pleased with the deal, we didn't have to pay any commission to Caroline from Euroland (unlike the norm in Turkey where the buyer pays 3% commission) and all the military checks, costs for obtaining the Tapu were going to be covered by Harmony Homes, the only cost to us was the purchase price of the villa which was £45,000!