We’ve had quite a lot of problems, one way and another, in the building of our villa – as those who’ve been reading my blog, “Buying the Dream” will know.
The question is: when will it end? When I get tired of writing, when you get tired of reading – or when the problems finally end?
Well, it’s now October 2016, seven years after we first signed up to buy and the problems go on. Here’s the latest: a Turkish contractor who has a company in the Calis Beach/Fethiye area, owes us money, nearly 650TL. He took the money to put in a wi-fi system, which he promised would be in place before our next guests were due to arrive in July this year. It didn’t happen. The guests, promised wi-fi, did not get it and were understandably very upset. We hired another contractor after these guests left (because the original guy kept promising them but kept coming up with excuses and never got it done). He doesn’t dispute what he owes – it’s in a written contract, signed by him – and he promised to pay. Promised, and promised – and is still promising. He has an endless list of excuses, some quite amusing, as he puts off the payment week after week. The latest: “My bank day Monday and I pay Monday”.
I hate having to do this as he seems a personable guy, but I warned him that I would name and shame on this popular forum if he did not pay by a final deadline of Wednesday 12 October – yesterday. Surprise, surprise: no payment. He now says he will definitely pay up by Monday 17 October – after all, that’s his ‘bank day’. Hmmm - strange for the owner of a large local building/property & pool management company to be reliant on his ‘bank day’ to pay a long-standing but paltry sum of less than 650TL. Yet another delaying tactic -
So-o- what’s his name? And what’s the name of his company? If you need small scale building work, pool maintenance, property maintenance, or wi-fi installation, and if you come across him, please be warned! He seems a really nice guy but do not trust his ‘sincere’ promises!
His name is . . .
Heck, I’ve decided to give him the very last benefit of the doubt, as I am reluctant to name and shame him, but if Monday comes and goes with without payment, I’ll reveal it on Tuesday for sure 
. . watch this space.
