Several Questions if I may..

[SuzzPuss]

Haha!  Quite right.

Actually I found the advice on here to be not just helpful but essential.  When I hear how many people fall into traps buying abroad, and having been the victim of, at best, a builder's incompetence in Portugal a few years back, I shudder to think of the trouble I could have got into when buying my villa without this forum.  Thanks everyone.  Particularly you Scunner.

 

[daveG]

Ill just add one small piece of info given to us prior to our buying an apartment.
If you decide on the ground floor, Look out for rising damp and be security aware.
If you decide on a top floor/duplex.thats were the water comes through.
Middle floor more expensive than ground but cheaper than top. 

[Jim Fraser]

Another cost I forgot about - and apologies if I missed anyone mentioning it, is telephone/internet costs - budget for about 25 Tl for ADSL only to up to 100 Tl a month for some of the more expensive tarrifs that cover both.

[BernieTeyze]

Thanks both,more great advice. We are hoping by using the forum recommendations we will be able to dodge any 'iffy' properties. Phones/internet isnt on my list as yet.
 Thanks so much for all the help.

[Supacabby]

Last winter my "long" stay in Calis cost me appx £1,000 per month taking everything into consideration inc. flights to/fro.

I rented a 2 bed mid floor apartment, had the heating on when necessary, shopped at the market for fruit/veg & local supermarkets (Bim, Genpa, Tansas, Kipa etc.) for the rest, ate eat out slightly more than average (even if it was only a pide for lunch), hired a car for 2 weeks to do some sightseeing & thoroughly enjoyed my stay.

1 extra I don't see mentioned is the cost of your residency, not sure of the current cost.

PS: Have you budgeted for healthcare? SGK or similar?

PPS: Flights home twice a year to see family or attend weddings/funerals etc???

[Scunner]

You can also make great savings by convincing your friends to come to the funerals, reducing the number of visits to the UK by half.

[BernieTeyze]

Havent done the residency thing either, didnt know if I needed to if I was renting, obviously its now on the list thanks. As for returning to the uk, I think I am all funeraled out.

Is there a map on here like there used to be on the old site,( I think) showing all the areas around Calis. koca calis,ovacik, fethiye please. I tried to zoom into the old one to see where places are but that didnt work. Thanks

[Highlander]

Nicked this one from a Jim Fraser post

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=36.6594695&lon=29.1207365&z=15&l=0&m=b&search=ozmen%20hotel

[Scunner]

That's about as good as you'll get I think as scale can be the problem. Also some places don't exist (technically - I'm not sure there is officially such a place as Koca Calis for example) - and some areas are difficult to define (Calis being the big example). Also, some places are two places - Akarca is Akarca but it is also Fethiye (part of), as is Calis - although as previously explained most of Calis might well be part of Fethiye but it isn't part of Calis in reality at all. And The Bird Sanctuary area isn't a real area either, we made it up   

[SuzzPuss]

Glad we got that cleared up then.