Silverfox Newbie

Hi all

A quick hello after joining the forum recently.  We have just found a lovely place in Armarilla golf which we will complete the sale at the end of this month.  Needs a clear out of some of the furniture and bit of TLC to bring it up to a good standard, including skimming the walls and ceilings.  Once finished we hope to split our time between Tenerife and the UK. 

Hobbies include a little bit of golf,  plenty of property developing and as much power boating as we can manage around Tenerife.  My wife loves gardening and looking forward to growing some exotic plants.

We have just sold our place in Cyprus after spending almost 23 years living there part time. 

We are shipping our LHD car and boat from there once we get sorted.  So if you have any advice about registering the car and boat or mooring advice I would appreciate your comments.  We would also appreciate some advice on buying a new bathroom suite from somewhere around Las Chafiras or Santa Cruise.

Many thanks for looking and look forward to plenty of helpful advice

Best advice I can give you is don't listen to anything Vince (Perfectspecimen on the forum) say  about cars or boats, he's got a collection of them, all broken, they were ok when he bought them, but then he tries fix them...

Enjoy  ...

Check this handy bit of kit out...Diana McGlone. Lots of useful stuff in here.

Thanks Campbell lots of good information on this site

Thanks adam I will send Vince a post to see what boats are going cheap

You need to get your vehicles matriculated Boats  and cars

Welcome to the forum silverfox ,that was my late father in laws nickname ,but my mother in law said he was more like a skunk, where in Cyprus did you stay ?

Thanks Gypsy a great help

We had a house on the east coast of Cyprus in a small village called Freneros.  Very handy for the border crossing into the North and also the nightlife of Protaras & Aiya Nappa

We fancied a change of scenery after 23 years

We went every year for about 6 years to Limassol but then ended up going to Paphos until it was turned upside down when they tried to make it into something it wasn't also liked Protaras / Paralimni in fact could perhaps  visit Protaras if I get some time off   later this year

Welcome Silverfox. Power boats eh? I have a one horsepower Seagull in working order, two tenders and 3 vehicles.

people I know that have bought cars over have got rid as so much red tape, sorry.

Topdog wrote:people I know that have bought cars over have got rid as so much red tape, sorry.

I wanted to say that TD, but thought our newbie would think I was just the bearer of bad news.

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Love that, but had him 4 or 5 times , Tenerifey tenerifey

I know exactly what you mean by red tape after spending 23 years in Cyprus & having to deal with red tape at every turn.  We normally got round it by paying someone to do the paperwork for us and stand in the long queues.  Saves a lot of time & stress all round

Welcome Silverfox , I also spent a lot of time in Paphos Cyprus lovely place . 
Good luck with completing your sale on the golf .
Hope you enjoy the forum    x

I once went in the Notary and everything went straight forward  I kept looking round for the cameras,
I have been 9 time buying and selling and i always take a fold up chair and a flask of tea,

If you need that person to do it for you the I would recommend Diana McGlone. 

There are naturally plenty of others, but Diana is the only one I would recommend, professional and doesn´t rip you off, everything she says she will do she does.  

Others, well they seem to get as many bad comments as they do good.  

At least with Diana you can email her and she will tell you what to do, she doesn´t insist that it is too difficult and then say I can do that for €150.  If you can do it she will tell you how, if you feel you can't or don't want to then she will do it for you at a very reasonable feel.

Mcqueen wrote:Love that, but had him 4 or 5 times , Tenerifey tenerifey

Bought house, it's two/three years old, I go Los Cris town hall with someone who spoke Spanish from estate agents to set up payment in my name for rubbish collection which had been happening since  appartments was built, wait our turn to go to counter, I could tell conversation was going tits up for some reason, turns out property does not exist on their computer, I say it does I'm living in it, but computer says no, they listen to story and ask for 2/3 years rubbish payment, I say no I've just bought the place, took months to fix out...

Brutal

Thanks all for your very helpful comments and advice.

Gypsy: What sort of things does Diana specialise in and do you have any contact details?  e.g. Would she be able to deal with car imports, inspection and registration?

There are plenty of horror stories from Cyprus.  Many people have paid cash for properties and years later are still waiting for title deeds.  10-15 years is quite quick for them.

Then they find that the developer has taken out a mortgage on the land, gone bust and cannot pay the mortgage.  Banks put a memo on the properties, meaning that they cant get their title deeds until the owners pay off a proportion of the developers debt.  That's the tip of the iceberg

hello there,hope you manage to get everything sorted without too many problems