Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Other Local Resorts & Areas => Ovacik Discussion Forum => Topic started by: BernieTeyze on August 16, 2014, 21:31:49 PM
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Does anyone know of a long term rental villa with private pool in the Ovacik area for end of season please?
Due to our widow neighbour selling his apartment next door and the one above us was already on the market,( both of whom have decided to rent out to who evers). we now have a steady stream of tourists making noise and for some reason thinking we are the agents. They think nothing of knocking on our door for whatever is lacking in their places and the owner of the one above phoned our house to ask why the pool wasn't cleaned..US not the maintenance company.
So our peaceful retirement is no more, and new owners say they will rent out all year, so we have put our place on the market. If anyone knows of anything at a reasonable price We would be grateful.
Many thanks.
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What a shame it's come to that :( Good luck in your search, hope you find the perfect place.
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Yes, it is. We are so disappointed. After all my moaning about it, I had come to appreciate what a great little place we had found. I have got my head around the weather didn,t envisage a change in neighbours woud be more a commercial venture. I,m sure it will sell relatively quickly,as a holiday apartment its ideal. Just not suitable for full time living. So onward n upwards for us and another lesson learnt. : :) :-[ :)
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Oh Slikmrs, so sorry you are having to consider moving when you've barely got settled in your place. It is a problem with apartments unfortunately, you might start out with lovely neighbours and end up with the munsters, everything being shared is also a pain the proverbial if you get a non payer/pool hogger etc. Been there and done that and very thankful to have sold up and moved on. I wish you the very best of luck in search for a new home.
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Hi Lee, thanks for the sympathy. You say you sold up n moved. Did you stay in Turkey? Was it hard to sell and did you rent after? I,'ve already applied for my old job back in UK as a back up. : :)
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Take a look in Calis or Fethiye, at least it will be warmer in the Winter than up in the mountains.
Good luck.
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Yes, we may have to widen our horizons Jacqui. As long as it's quiet and not a built up area.
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11pm..they are all in the pool with kids n a baby in a pram right outside my window..I can't wait to leave here rally this is crazy.
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Slikmrs this is so sad, you were so keen and eager for the dream. The end of season is near, things may quieten soon and the pool will be emptied, things are bound to get quieter, then you will be in a better position to make calm choices. I wish you all the best. :'(
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Ah that is a real shame Slikmrs, I totally understand where you are coming from, we had the same problem a few years ago and I was to the point that I wanted to sell up and just stay in a hotel for our holidays, of course we want people to enjoy their holidays but it became practically unbearable at one point... Like another member has said once the season is over and the kids are back to school things may get better for you... All the best in whatever you decide to do...
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Still in the pool..I just want to go home :(
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Is there no pool rules on your site?
Surely by 10pm people should be out of it. On our complex the pool is out of bounds from 8pm until 8am.
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Great they don't seem to get in ours until 11pm. The out of tune singing tipped me over the edge and I went out n told them HAYIR..I am live here and want to sleep...
12.45am this Isn't what we came here for. We wanted peace n quiet,I can't wait to get out of here.
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Hi Lee, thanks for the sympathy. You say you sold up n moved. Did you stay in Turkey? Was it hard to sell and did you rent after? I,'ve already applied for my old job back in UK as a back up. : :)
We lived at Tasyaka and had the sign up on the balcony for about 12 months, loads of viewings - mostly Turks, almost sold it 3 times but each time it fell through. When the next season was coming up we went off and rented an apartment at Calis. By sheer luck after we had been left about 5 weeks, we met a guy who had come with one of our viewers to translate. We didn't know he was an agent at the time, anyway he asked if we'd sold and we said no. He had our phone number and within a couple of weeks he contacted us with a prospective buyer and the deal was done.
A nice Turkish family from Mersin bought it for their son, all done within a week. We did lose money on it but were very happy to get shut of it and they were cash buyers so no problems.
We have rented furnished since then only taking our kitchen stuff and bedding/towels etc. and a couple of things with us. We had sold fully furnished as, like you, we even debated going back to the UK, that was over 3 years ago and we're still here.
As someone else said, try to stick it out for now the season is almost over and rentals are much easier to find in the winter months. Have a look on Sahibinden.com and good luck. Glo
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Now on with 2 agents..I have phoned telling everyone it's available to buy. Thanks again Lee. Very much appreciated.
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Having followed your moving trials and tribulations with much interest, I am very sorry that you having such a bad experience. What with the cold weather in the winter, and now living amongst a load of noisy holidaymakers I can quite understand why you are feeling the way you do. I would just ask you to consider is it just the latest problems you are having that has made you feel this way, or have you deep down decided Turkey is not for you? I have never met anyone as enthusiastic as you were when you first mooted your move, and I am sure like a lot of others on the forum, followed your move with great interest. If it is just the problems you are experiencing at the moment, then I am sure a move to a more residential are would solve your problems. However if you really deep down think the whole move was a mistake, its probably best to admit it now. You can go home with your head held high, because you did give it a go, and unlike me and many others you didn't just talk about it but gave it a try. Whatever you and your husband decide its only you two who matter . I wish you all the very best in the future be it in Turkey or back here, where its bucketing down!! xx :)
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Great post echogirl1
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Trouble is we don't want a residential area. We want somewhere very quiet, with a private pool,which is pretty stupid as we don't have transport. As for what I want, I don't know any more..I see things from a different angle to slik, I,m a just say what you want kinda girl and we,'ll do that..and get on with it. He seems to be like a seesaw, I would have bet money he meant we were going back this morning, tonight I'm not sure.
One thing is definite, this place is getting sold. If we stay we are going for a long term rental villa with private pool. Or we go.
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Sorry , found out from our friends last night the sign we borrowed was made in the uk , but Ive noticed someone has informed you where you can get one locally. All the best to you both .
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Oooops replied on wrong topic, still half asleep , this was a reply to your selling topic.
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I also read about your move here, and am sorry that you're unhappy in your present location. Would you consider getting some transport? We moved to Turkey last year, and stayed in Calis and Ovacik before settling in Uzumlu. We love it here, it's friendly yet tranquil, with stunning scenery and quite a few bars and restaurants. Yes, a villa here can be cold in winter, but a good woodburning stove will heat a lot of the house - and it's still warm outdoors. Only 15 minutes to Calis...... but you do really need your own transport. Might be worth a look at the villas here to see what you think?
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If I were you I would look for a Villa in Calis. There are some very quiet places only 5 minutes from the prom. I know, we have one next to farm land. The benefits of Calis are:- it"s not as cold in the Winter as the mountain villages, which you don't want to experience again and there is a good ex-pat community which seems to have lots of things going on all the year around. There also seems to be a good rental market for villas.
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Which areas are the quiet ones Jacqui? Next to farmland sounds good.
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It's surprising just how quiet the Villas are away from the prom. If you are a using Interturk Estates they will advise you if there are any for rent. The Ciftlik side of Calis going to the left from the prom would be a good place to start.
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I,m lucky to have the cream of estate agents Jacqui. Cenk at interturk, Ronnie at coast2coast and Ilhan at select. If they can't sort me out selling and renting no one can. Just have to decide, once we have sold,what we are doing. Thanks for advise.
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When moving to 'quiet' area, just bear in mind that you may encounter 'agricultural' noises, chickens, goats, geese, cows, donkeys, dogs etc. The noise that they create can be louder than you anticipate, and they don't stop at night time, nor go home when the holiday season has ended. I am very close to a village at the moment and I hear animals all night, chickens going off at all hours and a dog who howls every time the mosque calls to prayer, it doesn't bother me, I like the noses - all part of country living.
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This may be the case in France, but in Calis the farm areas tend to be divided into smaller areas and a lot of the farmers just leave small fields for the animals to graze. We have a field next to use where an old lady brings her sheep and goats twice per day. So no noise. In fact, we save scrapes for the animals and she gives us eggs, fruit, veg etc., She takes the animals back over to the farm in the evening. At the front of us is a small holding that have a few goats and some vegetables so no noise there either.
We have heard some farm machinery over the fields near us, but that is only occasionally.
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So sorry it's not working out. Do you have anyway you can move before selling as some of the places we regularly see online have been for sale since we moved here over 3 years ago.
Not being negative, but just hoping you know that unless places are an absolute bargain they can take ages to sell , don't want you to have any unrealistic expectations.
Doesn't matter how good the agent is, but a lot of people are hesitant to buy at the moment with the ever changing, uncertain political situation, and the weak tl etc.
We absolutely love where we live in Calis, the only downside is noise, luckily not from a complex, but Turkish people generally seem louder, whether it's shouting on their mobile phones outside your house at the crack of dawn, or late at night, playing music too loud, scooters with no exhausts bombing up and down the road etc.
I also know people who have chosen remote detached places only to find they're really bored and spend most days travelling up and down to Fethiye, and then struggle financially to afford the petrol etc.
Lots of things to consider, and you could go from the frying pan into the fire.
A few more weeks and the tourists will be gone and you'll have your peaceful bit of paradise back again.
I'm currently on holiday, very remote in Northern Cypus, detached, private pool and have use of a car, but not even having a local shop to wander to is doing my head in and I'm craving hearing my neighbours hob nail boots up and down the stairs and his incessant iPad game bleeping away.
Think carefully about why you moved to Turkey and how you want each day to be. Silence soon becomes dreary and annoying too.
It's a wonderful place to live and you're still very much in the honey moon period of thinking it's going to be perfect.
It's not, but it's pretty close, the more I go away from Fethiye the more I miss it and am sure I've made the right move, give it time x
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You see my little ice box in the mountains was near on perfect. Lovely Turkish neighbours, the old farm/street dog jackieboy that has become mine and costs me a small fortune in vets bills and food,along with the chickens we save the scraps for and the goat lady who brings her herd up twice a day. My great view, and the peace,my turkish neighbours are quiet and because the other 7 apartment owners didnt rent out and only holidayed with family and friends a couple of times a year.
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This may be the case in France
Jacqui I may be wrong but I suspect that Lorraine is in Turkey but has a her location as France as I cannot see the French putting up with a Mosque calling for prayer ;)
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Just a thought Slikmrs, but how about putting your apartment up for rental, (if you have problems selling) and join your neighbours in their business venture of holiday lets? It would then give you an income towards renting a villa. On the subject of villas in Calis towards Ciflik, my sister has property in that area. The building going on on the other side of the canal there is vast, and there are plans to put a new mosque with all the attributes somewhere in that area, so be aware. However, if you rent, you can move on at a moment's notice if it becomes too crowded.
I would, however, encourage you to take a step back and a deep breath before you act. The renters on your complex at the moment may only be there for a few more days, and (in my modest experience) most renters in the Fethiye area appear to be very considerate on the whole. :)
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Old nick, how I wish your prediction was right. We are into our 6th week,and booked until the end of the season.
This place is on market,and can't go quick enough for me,us renting is not an option.We are still undecided if it's renting or a return to UK.
Thank you anyway for your kind post. It's appreciated.
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Please do as others have suggested and take your time over your decision, whatever it may end up being. As I said we had a knee jerk reaction, no way were we going to spend another summer in our apartment. Going and renting gave us a breathing space to think. We decided that on the whole we could afford a much better lifestyle here than back in England, so we stayed. We'd sold everything there so had nowhere to go to anyway.
We didn't want to leave the apartment empty or rent it out (a minefield in my opinion) so we were overjoyed to sell. Offloaded a lot of problems - cause there are others living here but lets not go there.
If you can move out to something you are happy renting and be realistic about your asking price then you shouldn't go far wrong. Cenk will sort you.
There are more full time expats in the Calis area and more going on in the winter months.
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Yes, thanks everyone, alot of food for thought. We are putting the scenario to our children,who are concerned and want us to return. We hopefully will sell quickly and make a decision then.
Such is life and whatever will be will be, if it all goes pear shape at least we had a year off and met some lovely people ;D
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Slikmrs such a shame the way things have turned out for you. I use to read your posts that were so full of enthusiasm and excitement when you were looking forward to the move to Turkey so good luck with what ever decision you make .
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I think we all really feel for you Slikmrs, having followed your early excited posts through various worries and problems. It was great to read. I hope that now you make the right decision for you. Your experience has reinforced our opinion that it's best to rent out your UK home, therefore creating an income and then rent in Turkey for a while in the areas you might have chosen, for at least 6 months (each, if more than one). If you hated it you could just move on elsewhere or go back to UK without the problem of selling. If you stay and love it you have a great idea of the ideal place for you. Whatever you decide, your adventure continues and you have given people food for thought. :)
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You know what, whatever we decide i,ll never regret our decision to have at least tried. It,s been a roller coaster of emotions,a brilliant opportunity that not everyone is lucky enough to experience. I hope that I have at least paved the way for future visitors/expats and given them an insight into what awaits them and what to avoid. Mostly we have had a good old giggle and just a few tears along the way.
Onward and upward and thanks for the support xBerniex
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Life is all about experiences, some have many and some live their life in the same house and have the same weekly routine for their entire lives. I regret a few things and wish others had turned out better but I in no way regret moving to Turkey. Or moving back when we did. If you were to return to the UK, you'll view it far more favourably than you did the day you left it, and that in itself is a gift.
As my good lady would tell you, life can be frustrating, difficult at times perhaps but never ever dull - whatever the future holds, all experiences good and bad make you stronger :)