Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Property For Sale in Calis Beach & Turkey => Buying Property in Calis Beach, Fethiye and Turkey => Topic started by: lindacarl on September 11, 2013, 12:53:20 PM
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Hi all. Need some help here please.
We have finally had an offer (not a good one) on our properties in Calis. However due to Carl's and my health problems we've really no option but to sell - it'll ease up on a LOT of other problems.
There is just no way we can get over there & I can't leave Carl alone. He's had a number of 'heart bumps' over the last few days & that was before we had the added extra stress of a possible/probable sale.
Our neighbour who also is selling at same time has offered to be POA for us.
She tells us we need an Apostille Power of Attorney - has anyone done this from UK - we were also wondering if we could do this via Koray maybe over phone/computer.
Anyone done this & can tell us the easiest less stressful way?
Being sold to a Turkish developer.
Linda
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It's not as daunting as you think Linda (good news about the sale btw)
1.You need a PoA in English which the local notary office, in Fethiye, will definitely accept (I'll send you the very thing as a template, you can change the names/references).
2. Speak to your proposed attorney - Koray I assume, to get his full name etc.
3. Then you need to get it notarised and apostilled and for this you need to find out who your local Notary Public is - there will be a local one to you. Any firm of solicitors near you will know and will give you the contact details free (no honestly!). You need him to transform the completed PoA onto nice paper ( ;) ) and send it to the UK Foreign Office for stamping and legitimising.
4. They send that back stamped, to the notary public, and he sends it on to you.
5. When you get it, you need to get it to a sworn translator in Fethiye because it needs to be fully translated into Turkish - the English stamped version is not sufficient alone. Koray can indeed do this for you, and you don't need to be there.
6. Job done.
Best wishes to Carl and yourself from all of us - :)
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Thanks Keith. Susan was under the impression that we could do all of this online. I wondered as Koray knew us if it'd be possible for him to fax us a form & Carl sign it while on webcam, then give it to Susan to take over.
I'll get onto it when Carl is sleeping. He's stressed enough at moment.
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Doing it online is impossible.
I replied to reduce Carl's stress - once you decide to sell, the stress should all start to fall away :)
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Thanks Keith
Could you send us the form please!
It's NOT just this that is stressing him - wish it was!
I needed to find out easiest & safest way to do this!
Worried that he's not well enough to go visiting notaries etc. Just checked and there are some in Cardiff and Chepstow so will decide which is the best for access.
You're a treasure
Thanks
Linda
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Your a sweet man Keith - respect to your good self.
Now I'm wondering whether you will reply that how can I be a 'sweet' man - what are you saying, I'm a strawberry bonbon. :)
Pete
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Humbug
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Linda I'm sure a notary will do a home visit for you.
Good luck
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Good luck to you Linda and Carl,its time that your luck changed.
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Hope it all goes as smoothly and stress free as possible for you both. Well done Keith, very concise and helpful. :)
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The power and knowledge of the forum - wonderful to know help is there and readily given when needed :)
Good luck with the sale and I hope you will soon both be enjoying better health.
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Thanks all for your help & good wishes.
Unfortunately it looks like the person who put the offer in has stalled & doesn't now want to go ahead.
Apparently there is someone else who may be interested but he's offered lower money.
No-one has seen inside the properties so they have no idea how much furniture we do or don't have. As we had to buy the furniture/electricals from our unwelcome tenants I'm wondering if there is any way we could sell it to at least try & raise some extra cash?
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Is there anyone who could take photographs of the items you want to sell Linda? You could put them on here to sell them or Facebook buy and sell forum.. You would need a friend over here to show customers the items and take the money of course.. Second hand goods sell well over here but don't expect to get what you paid.. The ideal scenario would be to have a house sale..
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There is just no way we can get over there at the present time. I can't leave Carl alone and he can't go over as has too many health problems for them to even quote us for insurance + his health is not totally stable at moment, not to mention he can't walk. To be honest I don't even know if I can get insurance as I have an auto-immune disorder that can turn to cancer so they wouldn't quote me either for US when we went for daughters wedding. They have since cancelled BOTH insurance policies and said they would not even quote us. Haven't taken it further as there is no way at moment we can go anywhere.
I'd happily pay someone a percentage if they'd be prepared to do a house sale for us. I think I put a list on here of some of the items we had to buy from our horrid tenants - they bought & supposedly paid £3K just 2 months previously. We stupidly also bought a new mattress/duvet, hepa vaccuum, we also took over with us a wireless solar house alarm - PMSL when we discovered what we had - bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted comes to mind :)
Anyone up for a 3 house furniture sale?
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Linda, start another thread asking for someone willing to do this on your behalf.
It's worth a shot and I'm not sure you'll get the same coverage on this thread.
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I am not sure people will want to take a cut when you are quite obviously in a difficult situation right now. How about, just an idea I shall throw into the thread, one of the charities could arrange a house sale and you could donate say 10% of what they make to their cause. It would help them and it wouldn't feel awkward like it would if it were an individual.
Like I said, just a thought I had :)
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And a very nice thought.
Hope it works and helps everyone concerned.
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sent you a private msg Linda... xx
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Hi Linda, the 3C's will help as much as we can, providing that we are legally able to do this. Pete is going to FETAV to sort out the legal situation on Monday. I have sent you a private message
We will really do all we can to help you both and wish you both well
Chrissie
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Thanks, Keith, Anne and Chrissie - much appreciated!
Would write more but hands not too good today.
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Hi Linda and Carl, have PM'd you :)
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this forum is just bloody brilliant, if I was in Turkey I would help, I am sure someone will step in and help and maybe one of the charities is already onto it
hoping that your health issues start to improve.
Lots of virtual hugs to you both.
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Hi Linda and Carl, have sent you two e-mails and pics to your personal e-mail address.
Chrissie x
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Thanks Chrissie
Hands wouldn't let me type :(.
Have just been in touch with a Notary here as we have another buyer - maybe? He wants well over £200 just to Notarise the form we supply him + £75 for Apostillation.
I think he's trying it on OR is that the going rate?
Can we just visit a solicitor and get him to verify signature - providing passport & bills etc. and send it off to foreign office ourselves to be apostillated?
How do other people do this - do you use a notary or just any old solicitor?
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I was POA for my neighbour out here and he had to have a Solicitor in the UK and an Apostile and everything must be correct or it wont be recognised out here. Yes costs are that high but shop around and see if you can get another solicitor that will do it cheaper.