How long? How is it?

[johntaylor49]

Interesting, we are thinking entirely the opposite! With the cost of living so High in the UK, and
the Pensions hit so hard by the Wunch, (collective term for Bankers, a Wunch of Bankers!) creating such a mess, together with the housing Market being so sluggish but the rental market so Bouyant, a different idea! Current thinking is that we will rent the large Property in the UK, rent in Turkey thus avoiding any UK taxes and no TAX on our UK Pensions in Turkey -- far from eating into our equity and spending all our pensions actually showing a
profit and investing that for one day returning to UK and selling up when the market is high.

Well, lets see what happens!

Meldrew

[daveG]

We first started taking holidays in Calis in 1998 and after six years of weighing up alternatives we decided to buy in Tuzla.
In 2004 there was already a Turkish community established, although we had views on (3 sides)to mountains including long distance
over to Tashika.Year on year the fields behind us have been built on (goats and hens replaced by houses and even a fire station)and
this year our bedroom balcony is redundant.
In 1998 the population of Fethiye was approx. 20th-now nearer 90? this has been reflected on the pace of life, and the value of para(money)
However we are treated with respect and among other niceties we receive food parcels from our wonderful Turkish neighbours and over the nine years, we have not been the only ones ageing! this has its benefits-frequent wedding invitations etc.
As previous posts we also give late June-July-Aug and even early Sept a wide berth!! and generally spend approx. 5months in total there.

[Cavfan]

We are similar to others . We bought in 2004 after visiting  calis for 15 years. We fully intended on renting it , in fact we didn't really intend to stay in it as we always stayed on the prom and couldn't imagine not walking to a sea view! Naturally we couldn't bear , to be fair , bothered is more apt, to rent it out! We managed 2x  2 weeks for a few years and now do less as we tend to go other places now for our other hols. This year we'll be there for 10 days. We have long term plans to do 3 months there early or late season but we could've done that in a rental property really. We also have plans to rent in Spain over winter . I'm glad we bought as I think it was a sensible investment( a first for us). Don't think the return would have been as good in the bank!