Buying with Ancient Properties. Help?

[miolas]

Ref to previous message: Sorry, meant FIAIP not FIAP. This one:

F.I.A.I.P. - Federazione Italiana Agenti Immobiliari Professionali

[johnnymath]

Originally Posted by valerie

Hi
We have dealt with Ancient Properties and have purchased a property through them. The service we have received has been excellent and I would recommend the company. Paola has looked after us and is still doing so as we are hoping to start renovations soon.

If you have any more direct questions please ask them I would be happy to help.

If you mention my name to Paola she will tell you what she has done for us.

Valerie

We have just purchased a property thro AP and Paola has been tremendously helpful. I just wondered how you r renovations etc have progressed and, if you made use of AP services, how good were they eg in terms of quality of work, timescales , costs etc. Any advice or informatio you can offer would be very welcome.
Many thanks,
John

[valerie]

Originally Posted by johnnymath

We have just purchased a property thro AP and Paola has been tremendously helpful. I just wondered how you r renovations etc have progressed and, if you made use of AP services, how good were they eg in terms of quality of work, timescales , costs etc. Any advice or informatio you can offer would be very welcome.
Many thanks,
John

Hi John
I am pleased that you found Paola so helpful.
We have not started our renorvations yet as we need to sell our property in the uk first. We are hoping to do a fair amount of work ourselves. But Paola has been gathering quotes for the harder work and as always is looking after us well.
Where have you purchased? We have purchased near Casalanguida maybe we could meet up sometime?
Regards
Valerie

[johnnymath]

Originally Posted by valerie

Hi John
I am pleased that you found Paola so helpful.
We have not started our renorvations yet as we need to sell our property in the uk first. We are hoping to do a fair amount of work ourselves. But Paola has been gathering quotes for the harder work and as always is looking after us well.
Where have you purchased? We have purchased near Casalanguida maybe we could meet up sometime?
Regards
Valerie

Dear Valerie,
Many thanks for your reply. We have just begun renovations by way of an urgent intervention to restore the roof of our old house just outside (surprise, surprise!) Casalanguida!. It would be good to continue to compare notes, share info and advice etc as we each progress through renovations. I live in Scotland (and will continue to do so for the next 3/4 years then hopefully retire to Italy) so will depend on professionals in Italy to carry out the work on our behalf so you can understand how important references etc will be to me. I expect that Paola will mange this work for us. We will be holidaying near Casalanguida in October when we will also be firming up renovation plans with architects, builders etc and if convenient and possible it would be good to meet over a glass of montepulciano.
Best wishes,
John

[valerie]

Originally Posted by johnnymath

Dear Valerie,
Many thanks for your reply. We have just begun renovations by way of an urgent intervention to restore the roof of our old house just outside (surprise, surprise!) Casalanguida!. It would be good to continue to compare notes, share info and advice etc as we each progress through renovations. I live in Scotland (and will continue to do so for the next 3/4 years then hopefully retire to Italy) so will depend on professionals in Italy to carry out the work on our behalf so you can understand how important references etc will be to me. I expect that Paola will mange this work for us. We will be holidaying near Casalanguida in October when we will also be firming up renovation plans with architects, builders etc and if convenient and possible it would be good to meet over a glass of montepulciano.
Best wishes,
John

Hi John
We live in North Wales and can't wait to move out but alas we have to wait for the housing market to improve. We spent our summer holiday camping in Vasto as the house had no water and we could not do much without it. Paola has advised me that she will be meeting up with the builder to receive his estimate next week. We need to have the foundations sorted and some repairs to the roof. We have also meet with the electrician and await his estimate. We are keen to have solar power.

I am not quite sure when we will be going over but once the builder has done his job we will likely pop over just to inspect the work - a long weekend.
Are you flying over in October? We drove down as we wanted to take some things to the house. It was a long way but we enjoyed it stopping in France and Imola.

How much do you need to do on your property? And do you have much land. It is possible that Paola showed you our property as we mentioned that she had showed someone. I have great plans for the land although my husband is not much of a gardener.

Hope tohear from you soon.

Best regards
Valerie

[johnnymath]

Originally Posted by valerie

Hi John
We live in North Wales and can't wait to move out but alas we have to wait for the housing market to improve. We spent our summer holiday camping in Vasto as the house had no water and we could not do much without it. Paola has advised me that she will be meeting up with the builder to receive his estimate next week. We need to have the foundations sorted and some repairs to the roof. We have also meet with the electrician and await his estimate. We are keen to have solar power.

I am not quite sure when we will be going over but once the builder has done his job we will likely pop over just to inspect the work - a long weekend.
Are you flying over in October? We drove down as we wanted to take some things to the house. It was a long way but we enjoyed it stopping in France and Imola.

How much do you need to do on your property? And do you have much land. It is possible that Paola showed you our property as we mentioned that she had showed someone. I have great plans for the land although my husband is not much of a gardener.

Hope tohear from you soon.

Best regards
Valerie

Dear Valerie,
How good to hear from you again.
The house is very old (former Baron's home - altho' not grand or pretentious however). The house is known locally as Casa Piccione (house of the pigeons) but in a recent visit to the property a fox fell from the chimney so the house will be called Casa Volpe! What attracted me and my wife Maureen to the house were the vaulted ceilings thorughout, frescos on the top floor, most of which we'll lose thro' water ingress but which we hope to restore, the cotto floors and the impressive stonework. The cellar in particular we thought was potentially outstanding - you can probably sense how much we fell in love with the place! The house needs full renovation which we hope to largely complete within 1 year and, with Paola's help, I'm cautiously optimistic - altho' my good friend Mike assures me that it is more likely to take 3 or 4 (Mike has recently completed renovations of his house near Perugia). We have agreed circa 2300 sq m (1/2 acre) but will hopefully be able to negotiate with the landowner to buy another similar amount. The land is quite stark however and will need work to create an outdoor living space eg trees, patio area, pool? etc but I am not a great gardener either! We will be meeting Geometra etc for the first time in October, so things should start to heat up around then. All being well, we hope to be in a position one year from now to be transporting stuff to Italy.
Kindest regards and I hope that you will be in touch again soon.
John