It's never a problem to help friends, especially when it's your best friends. It was an interesting couple of days. I was helped tremendously by Volkan Sankir who's company 2Gether does translation and legal work.
The TAPU office was just a rugby scrum, there isn't a queue or a ticket system, just about sixty people trying to get to the front desk where an office full of clerks sat behind desks who largely seem to ignore the agitated throng at the front counter. I guess it was even more 'tense' than usual as many would have been fasting for Ramazan.
Day 2 was Utilities, for water I had to have the seller present but for electric it's possible to do that by yourself. In both cases I needed to show the DASK policy to pass go, other things required were power of attorney, passport translations, tax numbers, TAPU copies, passport copies, sellers Turkish ID copy, former utility account numbers. The water had to be registered in the flashy new office near the Tuesday market, but then despite having evidence that the account was paid up to date, we had to walk back to the Belidiye building above Migros where a guy wrote on a form " No Arrears" and then we had to walk back and hand that in !
Be prepared to sign loads of forms and face inevitable hiccups and if anyone thinks that being an estate agent here is money for old rope, I suggest you try this just once and you might change your opinion, I'm a fairly patient person but doing this for a living would kill me !
Anyway, alls well that ends well, there is a shiny new TAPU in my safe waiting to be collected by a very excited couple.
