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Swap Bulgarian Apartment for Car on Adverts

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  • #32
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,487 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    I've heard bad things about the Sunny Beach resort

    Bulgarias equivalent of Bray


  • #33
    Lawlesz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Lawlesz


    Lived in Bulgaria myself, although over the other side. Been to Sunny Beach tho... Jesus...

    Strange country in general, unbelievable corruption, you hear all about it but seeing it first hand is kind of disturbing.

    Have heard some horror stories too, from people handing over money for apartments and finding out the guy who 'sold' them it didn't even own it. Happened me when buying a car.

    Beautiful country though, if scenary/skiing/hiking/biking etc is your thing.


  • #34
    Lalealea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭Lalealea


    Lawlesz wrote: »
    Have heard some horror stories too, from people handing over money for apartments and finding out the guy who 'sold' them it didn't even own it. Happened me when buying a car.


    This happened to a friend of mine in meath. Except the house was in meath.


  • #35
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    Sunny beach is renowned throughout Europe (even in the rest of Bulgaria) for being an unremitting shithole. Bulgaria outside of that is lovely though, great food (lots of Greek and Turkish influence in the cuisine combined with good old fashioned slavic heartiness), some lovely cheap beer and decent wine, some of the most beautiful mountains in Europe, very friendly people, nice quiet beaches with lots of sun and warm water down near the Turkish border (the opposite end to Sunny Beach). All the same you'd have to be nuts to go dealing in Bulgarian property on adverts.ie. There are plenty of legitimate real estate agents and I know plenty of people, Bulgarians and immigrants alike who've bought or built houses there but the story a previous poster mentioned about people buying apartments that turned out not to exist is by no means a one off. There are whole villages and suburbs that don't exist near Sunny Beach and the main ski resort town of Bansko.


  • #36
    Fred Swanson
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  • #37
    cerastes
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    Deathwish4 wrote: »
    I'd have swapped if it was in the other Garia, Hungaria.

    I tried to work its neighbour into that joke, it doesnt work as well.
    Wonder what its like outside the apartment block? or is it the Bulgarian equivalent to a ghost town or leitrim?
    No buses and one wheel barrow a day to the next burg but a horse and cart every week?

    Doesnt look very wheelchair accessible either, steps everywhere, even in the pool.


  • #38
    Fred Swanson
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  • #39
    cerastes
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    The neighbours? Romania? or the locals? or is it the local mafia?


  • #40
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    cerastes wrote: »
    The neighbours? Romania? or the locals? or is it the local mafia?

    Probably a bunch of 18 year olds from Dublin or Newcastle for most of the Summer puking in the streets and falling drunk off of balconies.


  • #41
    cerastes
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    I'm beginning to see a correlation between Bulgaria and Ireland


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  • #42
    tricky D
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    Lawlesz wrote: »
    Strange country in general, unbelievable corruption, you hear all about it but seeing it first hand is kind of disturbing.

    Have heard some horror stories too, from people handing over money for apartments and finding out the guy who 'sold' them it didn't even own it. Happened me when buying a car.

    This is the main issue. The apt/property managers there can be the incredibly corrupt and will wrap you around there finger with all sorts of extra charges and restrictions, mostly illegal, but what can you do - nothing. A friend has to pay a 4 figure sum just to get the water turned on and trying to sell the apt is still going on after 3 years.


  • #43
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Anyone know the cost of a typical apartment there compared to the cost of a high end car the seller is looking for?

    Bulgaria sounds like a kip.


  • #44
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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