mcm1
14 Apr 2012
Travel / House hunting in Poland (something didn't feel right) [16]
i will start with a little about ourselves first briefly.
I have been travelling to Poland for some 15 years now, my wife has relatives around the Rybnik area mostly.
We starting seriously looking for a property over a year ago, somewhere to retire to.
Having both lived in the UK for the majority of our lives we wanted to start afresh somewhere new and enjoy our retired years, an adventure if you like.
The Polish relatives are in the main very supportive but think we must be mad leaving the comfort and security of the UK.
Our UK relatives just think we are mad full stop!
Reasons vary from language skills, the weather, medical issues, loneliness....the list goes on, I am sure they only have our best interests at heart and in no way do they think 'there goes our inheritance'!
We have no children ourselves (by choice) but plenty of neices and nephews etc..
I will return to the above point later as it is something we will need factual information on=inheritance issues.
We travel to Poland about 3 times a year on average, we bring back the aged In Laws-(FIL is Polish but lives in the UK) as they find travelling and airports in particular confusing. the wife and myself arrange for the relatives to collect the parents from the airport and we have a week or so on our own in Krakow or wherever we fancy before we join them.
Anyway back to the real estate.
It was on one of our trips to Krakow we thought about buying a flat in a new building, just for holiday use by us, this was probably 10 years ago.
From memory they were very reasonably priced with a 2 bedroom apartment going for about £20k.
After a meeting with the developer in their offices they said we needed to pay cash, we had offered our credit card as full payment but was rejected-CASH only!
Something didnt feel right so we walked away from the deal.
That was the beginning of our real estate in Poland experience, seems some things haven't got much better yet.
i will start with a little about ourselves first briefly.
I have been travelling to Poland for some 15 years now, my wife has relatives around the Rybnik area mostly.
We starting seriously looking for a property over a year ago, somewhere to retire to.
Having both lived in the UK for the majority of our lives we wanted to start afresh somewhere new and enjoy our retired years, an adventure if you like.
The Polish relatives are in the main very supportive but think we must be mad leaving the comfort and security of the UK.
Our UK relatives just think we are mad full stop!
Reasons vary from language skills, the weather, medical issues, loneliness....the list goes on, I am sure they only have our best interests at heart and in no way do they think 'there goes our inheritance'!
We have no children ourselves (by choice) but plenty of neices and nephews etc..
I will return to the above point later as it is something we will need factual information on=inheritance issues.
We travel to Poland about 3 times a year on average, we bring back the aged In Laws-(FIL is Polish but lives in the UK) as they find travelling and airports in particular confusing. the wife and myself arrange for the relatives to collect the parents from the airport and we have a week or so on our own in Krakow or wherever we fancy before we join them.
Anyway back to the real estate.
It was on one of our trips to Krakow we thought about buying a flat in a new building, just for holiday use by us, this was probably 10 years ago.
From memory they were very reasonably priced with a 2 bedroom apartment going for about £20k.
After a meeting with the developer in their offices they said we needed to pay cash, we had offered our credit card as full payment but was rejected-CASH only!
Something didnt feel right so we walked away from the deal.
That was the beginning of our real estate in Poland experience, seems some things haven't got much better yet.