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Thanks to you both will make contact.

Can anyone provide details of a solicitor based in Chania area.

We are looking to sell our villa but don't want to use an estate agent. We have been advised that there are some independent sites where you can advertise your property. We have found one site on Facebook but, does anyone know of any other sites which offer the this service.

Received an email from our accountant last night to inform us that the banks have removed all capital controls.

It's been five years since we moved into our villa and now it's looking a bit sad as the weather has taken it's toll. We live high up with no protection so we receive the full force of what ever Mother Nature has to offer. A few lines have appeared all over the and some of the paint has started to p...

Hi all

Just an update, visited a few shops and eventually bought a Hyundai HBC 260 from Floraplant in Kalyves. Staff were very helpful and even put the strimmer together for us.

Thank you all for your responses will now take a trip out to buy one.

Cruc

Hi all

We are In Kokkino Chorio and are in need of a petrol strimmer. Does anyone know where I can buy one at a reasonable price.

Thanks
Cruc

We are currently using Virus for our internet connection. We have now found that due to other properties around us using Virus speeds are much slower. When I contacted Virus I was told increase my Mbps to 8 and this will cure the problem. Well I am paying for 4 Mbps and at present am getting 0.66 Mb...

This is Brill

https://youtu.be/L44hPrsSOCg

So today they have been filming an episode of a place in the sun in Kokkino Chorio. Jasmine Harman was in the square with the film crew and had lunch at the taverna. Look forward to seeing the show in the autumn.

Charliesangel wrote:cruc,
the accountant should have all the pink slips, then... also, as you say, the lekkie would not have been connected, had the IKA been paid up.

Yes when the IKA receipt was sent to us we forwarded it straight to the accountant for his records.

When we had our villa built in 2014 we were advised by our accountant to make sure we received and forwarded to him the pink slips from the builder to prove that the IKA payments had been paid. We were advised that as we had employed the builder that we would be held responsible for the payments. On...

Thanks Warwick once again very informative and helpful advise.

We are now looking to spend more time in Crete and am looking to purchase a car. We have a home here but are not tax residence. In the UK you just walk into a showroom choose a car and pay for it, simples. I have been advised that it is not that simple here in Crete (nothing ever is). Because we don...