The "Official" translator arrived at the Tapu office today, torn blue shorts, ripped white Tshirt with some logo for Whisky on the front.
His job, shake hands, show us a copy of the buyers contract Tapu confirming the address, which of course we could have confirmed without him, confirm our photographs, again we did manage to recognise ourselves, point to the photo of the buyer, this caused us some concern as there was a photo of a man we had never met, we were informed that the ladies photo was the buyer, no problem there she was stood by us, the man when we questioned was the man stood at the end of the desk in jeans and stripy Tshirt was the Banks lawyer signing onbehalf of the bank for the mortgage. we signed our names across the photos, shook hands again paying 50TL for the privildge. This took from 9am to 12pm plus a few mins, in the meantime the buyer had to run around paying taxes, stamps etc. Then to the bank to be told they do not have enough money, come back at 2.30pm arrived back at 2.30pm to be told that the Tax office not releasing payment.
One house sold, new owner has Tapu and we have no money, maybe tomorrow morning 9.30am
Great, would we do it all again, leave that to you.