Hello, how are you?
I hope you’ve had a good week and life is treating you well.
Following on from last week, having seen the bungalow we wanted to buy, the next thing we needed to do was find a reputable lawyer in Paphos. Not an easy job! You have to be very careful. Even we ended up changing our lawyer after the transaction had gone through, mainly because we found an English lawyer where we didn’t have any language difficulties. So do bear that in mind!
Having said all this, the lawyer we used initially was quite amazing. He was very helpful and laid back. When we first went to see him, we explained that we’d found our dream property to renovate, but the problem was, we needed a deposit in cash to put down to secure it. All we had was a credit card and we didn’t want to draw a substantial amount on that. Well, we couldn’t believe what happened next!
He’d never met us before, but he just asked how much we needed for the deposit – and he wrote us out a cheque for the person we were buying from there and then. He said “Go and buy your dream”. We couldn’t believe it! He just asked us to take our passports into the office the next day so they could be copied, and he would sort out the rest. I have to say, we were in shock. We couldn’t imagine this ever happening in the UK - but maybe it does?
Anyway, we were jumping for joy. Off we went with his cheque in our hands to the vendor – who was equally as pleased. This was on the Thursday. The deal was now secured for 30 days until we could send over a further sum of money, which we sent via Smart Currency Exchange, www.SmartCurrencyExchange.com to his client account.
Smart were great, they managed to get us a really good rate, and the money was with him in 2 days. We saved a fortune – the Bank rate was horrendous, we are so glad we didn’t take that route!
Two days later, as you can imagine, we flew home, both so excited - and started to plan selling our house and moving to sunny Cyprus.
That’s when the fun really began!
More next week.
Take care, have a great weekend.
Best wishes
Jackie
http://www.CyprusBuyingGuide.com
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