Purchase of a Penthouse

Geff3


Joined: 18/06/2008
Posts: 7

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 07:03

I am in the process of purchasing a penthouse in alsancak through "Unwins" I would like to locate the site on google earth. Has anyone got any info please.

McSteviet



Joined: 11/05/2007
Posts: 1089

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 08:29

Geff3,



Has anyone got any info on what? Where you have bought your penthouse?



Do you not know? Sounds a bit worrying!!!



MC



Oh and by the way, welcome to the site

rocky


Joined: 17/10/2007
Posts: 1749

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 10:01

I think it may be in North Cyprus but thats a guess

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 10:03

do you mean you have never been there ??

dodger



Joined: 29/07/2007
Posts: 1895

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 10:05

Where is North Cyprus is it close to Turkey.

Lemtich



Joined: 15/02/2007
Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 10:12

Its in Middle Earth, dodger Baggins!



Lem

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 10:13

oh paul , you are on top form this morning

dodger



Joined: 29/07/2007
Posts: 1895

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 10:51

Thanks Pat,

Dont know why as i have just had a stand up row with our trade union official over a health and safety issue hey ho and away we go,

Paul.

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 10:53

No need to take it out on us dodger!!

T.

Skogsy


Joined: 15/05/2008
Posts: 339

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 10:57

I would ask Unwins. That way I would be able to find it when I arrived.

Skogsy

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 11:20

where is geff3 ???????

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 11:21

off to inflict a littlepain , see you all later

dodger



Joined: 29/07/2007
Posts: 1895

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 12:17

Trying to cross the border to the south with his tail between his legs.

Hilltop



Joined: 28/04/2008
Posts: 636

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 17:36

Thats the way to treat new members, make em feel stupid so they don't come back and bother you.



Have none of you ever asked a silly question? (ask a silly question, of course you have)

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 21:43

You must have more info Geoff ??

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 21:55

Hilltop,

Just trying to bring some much needed light hearted banter to the forum no harm meant lighten up matey,

Paul.

Hilltop



Joined: 28/04/2008
Posts: 636

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 21:59

It is not me that will have been upset by the "welcome", but I am sure it made you all feel very clever and "sod Geff's feelings"



Sad people

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 22:03

Let the person settle in first. Too many are attention seeking and rude to a first poster.



Hope you find your property from the eye in the sky.

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 22:15

Chill out sprouts,

Attention seeking Paul.



Geff3 if i have upset you in any way i apologise no harm meant honest.

Hilltop



Joined: 28/04/2008
Posts: 636

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 22:17

Sprouts??



Are you confusing this with another forum?

Geff3


Joined: 18/06/2008
Posts: 7

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 22:37

Hilltop,

Your right what a bunch of self inflated rude up themselves people. Is this their personal forum. Sad, very sad people. If this is the type of person out in TRNC I hope to God I dont meet up with them.



MCsteviet,

Thanks for the support as well. Yes I should know a bit more about it. I and 5 others have bought one each. I know the guy whos selling them, trust him lots, very good mate of mine. As for going tto TRNC Ive traveled all over the world for many years. I dont need to go OR be told what TRNC is like. Certainly come of the expats are to be avoided. Funny how some people try to spoil things. Again thanks to the pair of you. Geoff

Lemtich



Joined: 15/02/2007
Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 22:48

Byesi bye then. You're full of the joys of spring.



We'll never forget you..........



Sorry, who did you say you were?



Lem

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 22:53

Tiggy,

Look what you have started now.

girne 29


Joined: 06/12/2007
Posts: 1488

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 23:07

Hi Geff3

Google earth might not be much use as it shows area as it was 2 years ago approx, and presume your site is newer.You would need to know of some older landmarkto point you in the right area. Unwins could tell you what the site is nearand you work from there,ie some hotel or monument etc.

Lemtich



Joined: 15/02/2007
Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 23:21

Just out of interest to the Kavanlar purchasers and our tetchy friend, here is the Google Earth location for the Kavanlar Apartments in Alsancak off Sht Munur Sokak.



http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=35.342237,33.200049&z=18&t=h&hl=en-GB



You will notice the annoying lack of buildings, this is because it was taken in early 2005 and when the Kavanlar development was still a twinkle in Ilker's eye. Any pent houses around here in Alsancak built since will not show up on Google Earth



Sorry



Lem

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
18/06/2008 23:21

Geoff

We have bought in Alsancak and ours is a block of 6 ?..........maybe the same as you who is your builder.

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
19/06/2008 00:15

Lem

the google earth pic's from 2005 are still current as nothing has been built for the last 2 years ????

Lemtich



Joined: 15/02/2007
Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
19/06/2008 10:20

No Turtle



The pictures on Google Earth are like that because they have not been updated. Where those lines of trees are in the photograph is now a substantial development.



Lem

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
19/06/2008 12:07

newlad & dodger,



Are you a split personality ? !!



Please respect all users.



T.

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
19/06/2008 20:40

Just joking Lem Chill man chill

phylray



Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
19/06/2008 20:50

I wish people would be polite on this forum. When working with

Turkish people in Istanbul they always said to me that the English

were polite (don't know if that includes us north & west of the border!)

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
19/06/2008 21:21

Tiggy,

Re-Message 29 please explain,

Paul.

Lemtich



Joined: 15/02/2007
Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
20/06/2008 01:17

Turtle old boy.



Terribly sorry at misunderstanding your comment on message 27;



Please accept my most sincere felicitations.



Yours etc.



Lem

andre 514


Joined: 31/03/2008
Posts: 1163

Message Posted:
20/06/2008 15:56

have used google earth for north cyprus and you need to have a hard copy map with the location marked on for reference, before you can start moving around on the google system, or am I stating the bleedin' obvious?



another weird thing is because the patchwork of photos were all taken

at different times and then were somehow joined together in the software

things like a road can literally fade into the twilight zone eg the new fast north coast road as it heads east in the tatlisu area, just disappears into the earth



could be dodgy, suppose you discover a nice country pub that serves watney's red barrel or kebab restaurant whatever and when you try and map out where it was with google earth nobody else can find out if it was really there or just a symptom of heatstroke, you could end up like the poor crazy geezer at the end of "invasion of the body snatchers" (1958) "I'm not mad officer not mad!!!"



andre

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
20/06/2008 21:01

No Probs Lem.

Going to be a neighbour of yours soon (if the builder gets his finger out)

Just up the road at the other side of the village.

wynyardman



Joined: 15/12/2007
Posts: 4580

Message Posted:
20/06/2008 23:52

Andre514,



If I lost my way to a pub selling Watneys Red Barrel. I would thank my lucky stars.



Now if I find one selling "Ice cold Effes".............Heaven.........sod Google Earth!



wyn

Geff3


Joined: 18/06/2008
Posts: 7

Message Posted:
07/07/2008 16:48

Turtle

Sorry for late reply. I was not going to revisit this site. But I am pleased I have as some of the people in the forum are very nice after all. And I thank them for the support and information.

Here we go! I’ve travelled around the world a bit and I am ashamed to say the Brits generally do not stick together like other nationalities do. Wherever I have worked there are always enclaves of nationals sticking together and protecting each other but sadly not the Brits. Anyway I digress



I have purchased through a very good pal (up to now, ha!) The constructor is "Kavanlar". The reference of the plan is XI/16.E2, 6, 3 storey blocks.

Any help?? Could we be neighbours in the future???

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
07/07/2008 16:54

Hi geff3 , welcome back , forgive us , we can be a little silly on times but we are harmless , and do talk a lot of sense occasionally , hope everything goes well with your build

good luck , simbas

mackerel


Joined: 22/06/2008
Posts: 117

Message Posted:
07/07/2008 16:58

There is a couple of very good threads on the Kavalnar development and some very nice and helpful people.I have also bought there through Unwins and i am very pleased thanks to the people on this board so welcome back.

Geff3


Joined: 18/06/2008
Posts: 7

Message Posted:
07/07/2008 16:59

Thanks for the map reference. as you have rightly said a lot has gone on since the photos were taken. Nice of you to bother though.

Geff3


Joined: 18/06/2008
Posts: 7

Message Posted:
07/07/2008 17:02

New lad

OK mate no hard feelings.

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
07/07/2008 17:40

Using Google Earth saved us from a potentially disastrous situation.



Don't knock it!



During our purchase of a villa earlier this year, we asked for copies of the plans for the site and the setting plan for the villa.



What came back were plans showing the access road identical to the Google images, but as we had been out in April, we realised that the finished access road was in a different position on what is indicated as agricultural land.



We could have ended up with a lovely villa we had no access to!



Lawyers got onto in ( I can't blame them, they cant visit every property they act on). They got the vendors to alter the contract and drew up new plans and title to the road with binding confirmation from the local owners of access rights and ownership forever with no possibility for additional money.



p.s. I know that some Google images date from 2006/7 from the constructions and roads shown.



Rob

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
07/07/2008 19:50

Geoff

No we are not on Kavanlar but quite close at the other side of Alsancak.

But as already said lots of posts about your developement and some pictures as well.

All the best