Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Please read my story under ‘Accommodation’

Thank you for the post - what a terrible experience you have had.

We used to rent ours out. After 2 bad experience's similar to 'Ozankoys'. We came here to redecorate house again.
Decided we liked it here so much have never been back to UK. Just keep house for ourselves now

Actually we had been lucky for 13 years with no major problems so by the law of averages we were due a hiccup.
What made it worse was the bailiff had notified them of the ‘surprise’ eviction giving them time to move anything we might have been able to seize & sell & spend hours putting dog s**t everywhere.
We also had the expense of hiring a van + 3 men which he knew full well would be a total waste of money as the tenants had notified him that they had gone!
What a fiasco

Squatters - what a bummer. Did they have children or an old person living with them? I was under the impression that getting them out can take a lifetime if they do,

No children or old people thank goodness!

Sometimes peopel get into financial difficulties and as a landlord you just have to accept it and try to cone out with the best result. From what ive read here this was more if a deliberate act using the system for living for free. Ckearly very low quallity people they exist all over the world . For the dog shxt which was clearly a vile act of retribution im so glad you have indicated who these people are. Id email all the agents as well as they are acting on behalf of individuals and once they take their commission its the owners left holding the baby . People who act like this should not be afforded the protection of the housing rules but thats life .

I only rent to transient workers and students so if they lose there job they have to leave the country after 30 days .the students some times leave some unpaid bills and a bit if mess . Unfortunately there is a minority of kimlik holders who area aware of the legal laws and act with immoral intentions.

Yes we only rent to students & casino workers & previously the girl was fine, her father sent her the rent money, she was very respectful of us & our property. However she acquired this unsavoury boyfriend twice her age with 2 dogs who did not believe in paying rent & turned her against us.
We did not realise until much later that he has a TRNC Kimlik as when they said he wanted to be included on the contract he offered a Turkish passport. We just did it in her name as he seemed a bit suspect but ultimately it did not really help us as we had no control over who she wanted to live there.

I have a TC friend who has a couple of very nice flats near the Merit Hotels. He rents his flats out (a) through the Merit Group itself (b) long term rentals only, to senior members of the Staff - mostly from Turkey (c) rental comes direct from the Merit group. To the best of my knowledge he's never had any problem - mind you there is a first time for everything.

So sorry to hear of your tenants from hell Ozankoys but they are gone and you have a mammoth Bill to put things right., can you not make a claim of criminal damage to the property and make their life hell. No ombudsman here but quite frankly they are a waste of time in Blighty. Recent changes in the UK give more power to tenants. Their deposits have been reduced to weeks as opposed to months and property owners like us have to suck up the legislation. We invest in property as a means of seeing us through old age and may I add assist in young people having accommodation. It may be different in Blighty as property owners have to pay for everything that goes wrong whereas as I it out here you rent and the tenant sorts out the problems.

I dint know where you get the idea the tenant
Sort everythimg out but thats not what a happens my students wont even change a light bulb .in my experience tenannts in kyrenia dont stay very long if thingsdont get done. I find tenants in north cyprus much more demanding ithan in the uk i kniw i have exoerienced both for over 25 years.


I will give you an example just this week a lady came to ssee a flat im renting and i asked why she was leaving her current home and she said the landlord doesnt fix things . She went on to say that recently she had no hot water for two days! Two days i thought this is cyprus it could easily take a day toget someone out to look and another day for them to fix it . This is what some tenant is like in trnc they pay a few hundred quid and think they are staying in a 5 star hotel.

We do not expect tenants to do anything except pay their rent, bills & keep the place clean(ish), maintenance is our responsibility & we respond as quickly as we can if they have something wrong.
We also refund deposits when they leave which has surprised some tenants as not all Landlords do this!

Are you C & B?

Dreadful experience. Thankfully my tennants so far have been OK.

Yes we are thx for your kind thoughts

I can only speak from my own knowledge. My immediate neighbour English is renting from an English Landlord. The premises have been rented out for at least 10 years. The current tenant is refusing to pay the landlord any rent as it is claimed that they have rats in the roof area it leaks like a sieve in the winter and there is no hot water other than summer time. The owner had a major beef with Cyprus and moved to Bulgaria and present whereabouts unknown.
Whilst the current tenant does not pay rent they have not to:my knowledge used the rent money to repair the faults which have caused them to withhold payments. They are in fact now squatting. The premises have deteriorated over the years and looks dilapidated. They do not however cause us any problems except for the state of the place. I don’t even think rental tav has been paid over the years and the local council are not interested. This is the reason for my comparison between rentals in Blighty and Cyprus.

What?

One rogue landlord who has buggered off to Bulgaria, and a tenant who doesn't pay rent?

Are you saying that you think that this is the norm?

Yes exactly Keith who would want to live somewhere like that even if they were not paying for the privilege!