Savvaidis Associates Property for Sale Rhodes Greece Savvaidis & Associates Gr, Illegal Property sold by Savvaidis Assocaites in Rhodes Greece, Internet

For the unadultered official word on tourist rentals on Rhodes, contact this man ( centralized information available instead of rumour, hearsay & the chinese whispers that so often ends up being the way that information circulates. ) :

Dimitris Kapetanos Director Ministry of Culture and Tourism - Tourism Directorate for the Dodecanese Islands. Papagou & Makariou corner, 85100 Rhodes - Greece. Tel +30 22410 44331, 20245 - Fax + 30? 22410 26955.

He's a real gentleman and is very happy to discuss his work of both licensing and enforcement.

We bought through this same agent in 2008.We purchased in pylona,a "tranquil little village"After reading the ripoff report on this company and various other blogs and having bought through the same man we decided to retrieve our papers from our lawyers office and have them checked out.

You were right HFH666,our papers state we have a villa of 40m2 and NOT what we had been lead to believe we were purchasing,a villa 0f over 80m2!The paperwork revealedwe had paid roughly half of what had actually been paid!

Again like HFH666,we too purchased a pool and guess what?We now find that too is illegal (No licence).Our villa is illegal,our pool doesnt exist and are now informed by Emporiki bank that due to the illegal issues its value as of Dec 2010 is less than half the sum we had paid.

All this through NO fault of our own,we bought through the biggest estate agent on the Island who promised to "guide us through the buying process" and be with us "every step of the way".Maybe our biggest mistake of all was the one that HFH666 made in that of employingone of the suggested lawyers.Ours is not the same one they used but after some simple investigations found that Savvas Savvaidis list of "suggested/recomended lawyers" all seemed to do the same thing,None of them had noticed the discrepancies between building licences/plans/amount paid and notary contracts entered?Seems they all at it!

So in a nut shell,we now have a villa that isn't on what we bought?It's worth half what we paid(due to legal size)and now we are informed that we will be receiving a demand for many thousands of euro's for the villa being over size in accordance to the building licence?We will also receive a fine for the pool that we paid 20,000euro for and which has NO licence.

In all this company has left us in an untold mess both financially and with the worry of it all,now our health is suffering.And to think all we wanted was a place to retire to?This man has ruined our lives and cheated us of everything we had saved over the years,please beware!

John and sheila (Pylona)