Practical experience of one client.
The client needed an apartment with a budget of up to 2.2 million liras, and he was looking for an apartment on his own, without knowing the Turkish language. In fact, as do many clients. The seller was a Turkish realtor.
Step one - found a photo and a seller (Turkish realtor) offering an apartment from a Turkish owner. In a telephone conversation, the realtor said that people live in the apartment, but they will leave within 5 days after the transaction is completed. The client looked at the apartment, and at the time of the inspection asked the woman living in the apartment, are you a tenant, to which she quickly answers yes, and then no no no. The realtor simply forbids the client to contact her with any questions that are fundamentally important for the buyer.
Step two - why are these questions important for the client? Turkey has a weak system of protecting the rights of the owner over the rights of the tenant. The tenant may well live in the apartment during the change of ownership, and at the end of the lease agreement. In no way should you pester the tenant, otherwise a complaint to the police immediately follows from him that he is almost threatened. And then sit and hope that nothing happens to this person anywhere and take care of your alibi, because after such a complaint the first suspicions will turn to you. Thus. there is already a certain practice when people sell apartments, unable to evict the tenant. An apartment can be bought only in the absence of tenants and with the transfer of keys at the time of registration of Tapu.
Step three - the client tries to clarify when the tenant leaves. And then he was told that he would leave in a month. Yes, there is such a requirement in the law to vacate an apartment within a month, but a foreign buyer is at risk, what if something radically changes in this month and he does not move out. Then only the court, which can consider the case in a year or 2. For the duration of the litigation, the tenant lives in the apartment!
In order to insure, the client says that if he does not leave, we provide for penalties in the contract, to which he receives an answer: there will be no penalties, we will write that he will move out within a month and a half. Remember yes, it was originally promised 5 days.
Step four - in what language the contract will be drawn up, the client asks the realtor, because. a buyer looking for an apartment has a Russian passport, an interpreter is involved in transactions with foreigners. To which we are also told that only in Turkish can he write a contract.
Step five - farewell. The client, having told the realtor that he needs to discuss his objections with the owners of the apartment and report an additional decision, caused a storm of discontent and, in fact, a scandal.
Conclusion: If you do not understand many of the nuances of local legislation, contact a company where there are professionals who speak the language of the country and your native language, who provide support in all matters and who will guide you on a safe path to your dream apartment or house on the Mediterranean coast !
