Hello Everyone

I am e.mailing to see whether anyone would be interested in renting out their apartment/townhouse at Polis Gardens between Sunday 12th - Wednesday 14th October. 

My husband and a friend will be arriving in Cyprus on Sunday 12th and will take delivery of C002 on 13th. They need a base for a couple of days whilst they sort out some basic furniture including beds and would naturally prefer to stay at Polis Gardens and hopefully meet fellow residents.  They will be in Polis until 19th October.

If anyone can help please let me know.

Many thanks

Helen

Hi all Polis gardens owners,

I am writing to ask if there are owners of properties on our site who require a cleaning service outside eg.windows,shutters,railings,solar panels,patio areas,fly screens.inside through out,if your renting out your property or you want your property cleaned when you come out,so it is all ready for you or when you go home.

My wife and i will be moving out permanately in January and we are available to do this service if required we are in phase B block E 201 our e-mail is grahamwretham@hotmail.co.uk, phone no Cyprus 99989226 phone number England 01843 846593,mobile 07708849068.

We wish all the people with property on Polis gardens all the best in enjoying there homes and there holidays.

              Best wishes Graham and Sharon.

Hi all

A few pictures of phase c uploaded.  They were taken the week ending 19th September.  We were over to take delivery of our apartment which went well.  We are very pleased with it.  Few snagging items but nothing major. 

Heather & Bryan

Special thanks to James

( Marilyns husband) for helping me out . I will return your kindly loaned item as soon as I see you. I am in Cyprus on 1st Nov for one week.

Thanks again

Alison

hiya everyone

i also got the home furnishing plus on the one property and they came through pretty nicely yet on the other they didnt they credited by services account that ended up being pretty useful. we have to remember this isnt the UK and in Cy they do do things differently.

Management agreement can be over through if you have 51% of the purchasers on your side for running the project wafter the 2 years we have done this at one of my properties but have found various difficulties getting all the purchasers to actuall coff up the money where as with pafilia you are in a binding contract and you have to pay

Hi to everyone considering taking up the Home furnishings plus package !!

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It may be to your advantage to contact me before making your decision.

Be warned!!! if Pafilia fail to deliver the service as agreed, they will NOT refund the prepaid amount of 300 euros due back to you immediately in cash,( incidentally full payment is insisted upon in advance) but will instead credit it to the maintainance account for your property.

This is NOT the way the consumer credit act works in the UK. If I paid in full in advance for a service which was not provided, I would have no problem whatsoever obtaining the refund as due.

Ally

Same here Marilyn,

we are going out on 30th Sept for 18 days --since we still have the monsoon season in Ireland I am very much looking forward to it

Look forward to meeting with you

God Bless

Martin

Thanks Marilyn

Martin

Hi all,

Would somebody be so kind as to tell me the temperatures in Polis right now

Regards to all

Martin Brennan

Hi Nick,

thanks for that information. 

Am I right in thinking that after a certain period of time, (dont quote me on this, but is it 2 years?) the residence can vote to keep Pafilia as their maintenance team or get rid of them and get a private company in?  It was one of the selling points that was mentioned to me that Pafilia are still maintaining all of their past developments (an example is Iris Cottages in the Universal area) years after completion as their standard of maintainance is high.

If they are going to put the prices up so drastically, then possibly it is time for the residence of these developments to get together and put the contract out to tender. 

Would this be the position for Phase A residence?

Regards

Marilyn

Many thanks Marilyn - its very much appreciated.

Helen

Hi Helen, posted a recent photo of Block C for you.  My husband took it at the begining of this month.

Regards

Marilyn

All at Polis Gardens, just a tip you may wish to use. Advise their accounts in writing that any item whatsoever debited to your account must be notified in writing and give you the opportunity to review and pay within a reasonable time period. Develpers in Cyprus love to have an open account system and add costs to your account without advising you. Before you know it, there is an unplanned bill to pay with high interest.

Cheers

LIZIAN

Hi JayJay, thanks for your comments re SLOW Snagging, I wish that was the only issue slow I can deal with. It's been a prolonged nightmare of delays, poor repairs, other priorities, refusals to rectify and so on. All I can say is to be very clear, precise and specific and make sure every single item is logged in the initial list. Try to pin them down to a repair time scale and only accept "As New" condition as the acceptance criteria. They try to wear you down but eventually and after many argumentts it will get done.

Cheers

LIZIAN

Hello All

Anyone got any recent photos of the site, in particular Block C? 

Regards

Helen

Bring it out with you if your baggage allowances will stand it, be careful though as I've been told that most airlines are getting very strict with weight allowances. Next best choice is a trip to Ikea in Nicosia, it's only around a 1Hr 45Min drive, I would say they are probably the best place to get all the nick knacks for your villa / apartment in one go. We got all our bits and pieces there including light fittings, bedding, pots & pans....you name it.

Cheers

Lizian (PhB, D 100b)

Hi all,

Would anyone happen to know if bed linen in competitively priced in Cyprus, I am tempted to bring some out with me but am not sure if it's worth the bother.

I have found a local cleaner/keyholder if anyone is interested.

see some of you next week,

Alison

LizIan, sorry to here of your negative exeriences.  My husband is across early next week to take delivery so will let you know if we experience the same difficulties.  There are bound to be things needing attention, but to not have problems adressed is really unacceptable.  Good luck with getting everything attended to.

Marilyn

Hi all at Polis Gardens Phase B & C,

I'm not sure if it's just our bad luck, but we have had a frustrating time getting the developer to make good a list of snagging items first advised during the second week of June and still ongoing at the end of August. The holiday break for most of the site repair people and the priority to finish some of the Phase C properties didn't help much. Some of the problems are the standards we as customers are trying to achieve (It is a brand new property afterall) and the seemingly lower standard of acceptance the site people wish to place on us, in some cases I feel they just want to make loads of excuses and reasons not to do a proper job because their busy. Is it just us or has anyone else had issues in getting their snagging issues sorted to the standard a new property should be. My wife has now been waiting for completion since mid June and still ongoing, in some cases European standards of build are not being adhered too. Let me know if you have had any issues.

Thanks

Lizian

Hi Mike and Sheila

We are also in Phase B but we missed the BBQ -we are going out on the ist week of Oct ,hope to meet you  if you are still in town

Regards

Martin and Fiona

Hi!

To all our neighbours  in Phase B - and very happy memories of our trip in June and the communal barbie around the pool! Meanwhile we're getting excited about our next trip on 17th September and looking forward to meeting as many of you guys in Phase C as poss. Hope your handovers are going smoothly.

Cheers!

Mike and Sheila  A5 Phase B

Hi

Just new to the forum but taking delivery of C204/phase C on 25 Aug (and can't wait!!!).

We'll be there for 2 weeks and hope to meet some of you while we're there.

Janice & Jim

Hi all,

glad to hear that Phase C deliveries are going so well.We are over on 1st Oct to Phase B. We took delivery last May

Looking forward to meeting new friends

Martin and Fiona

Hi all

Have been looking at the forum daily to see if any news.  The news looks very good.

Great to hear a delivery has taken place in block C.  Over 2nd week of September to take delivery of C207 hope to meet some of you.

Heather

Hi Carolyn & Ian, agree with Alison, very reasuring to hear that people moving in and great to hear that Block B is now habited.   :-) 

 Hubby over at begining of September to take over No. 1 in Block B, myself over for a couple of weeks in October - can't wait!

Marilyn

Hi ,

Many  thanks to Steve ,Carolyn and Ian. Your updates have given reassurance. I will be there from 3rd to 21st September to take posessionand again from 1st to 8th November. I will of course update you all and post some photos.

Look forward to meeting you

Alison

Hi

We have just arrived back after taking delivery of B3 (1st handover in "C" I think).  All furniture/curtains in and everywhere nice and clean to move straight into. Apart from the occasional spells without electricity had a great 10 days.  House is painted and finished to a high standard with only a handfull of minor snagging points. The pool has water but we were told it could not  be used until September, we used pool in phase B which was extremely quiet.  Common areas taking shape slowly with finishing touches to buildings going on all around.  We agree with Steve that the surrounding views are fantastic but would look much nicer if they removed the rubbish off site regularly rather than piling it up all around. Going back at the end of October when we're sure everything should be finished and the whole project looking great (fingers crossed!)

Carolyn & Ian

I have last week (several days later than promised 3 weeks ago) taken delivery of my phase C apartment C201. Lots of work to complete on common areas and effectively still a building site , but I have to say a lot of progress during our stay of 3 weeks where we stayed  in Phase B.

Internal standard is quiet good biggest area of complaint being the edging and finishing of the parquet/laminate flooring which we had continued into our lounge because we found the floor tile selection particularly un inspiring.

Its taken 2 years 4 months but the view I have is fantastic and is even better from 301.

Steve

Hi Ian,

Thanks very much for the help. I have been told that there is in fact a comunal sattelite dish so the rest should be plain sailing.

regards

Alison

On Phase B, one of Pafilia's sister companies EVICOM suppies sattelite dishes usually one to each block if the cabling cannot be linked from block to block. During the build, you should have been asked if you needed the sattelite connection which is basically the cables running into your property. When your ready, go to the EVICOM shop in Paphos and order the system you want, there is a mix of one payment free to air channels or subscription channels. We chose the free to air Astra system which gives you access to a number of BBC channels. Once paid EVICOM will connect you up. They actually gave good rates on new TV's, maybe be best to keep all the viewing costs with one company.

Hope this helps.

Ian PhB D 100b

Hi again,

sorry I forgot to ask, does anyone know the situation with regard to installing a communal sattelite dishe on block C ?

Alison

Hi Heather,

Thanks very much for the photo's, I can't believe the difference a few weeks has made. I will be coming out to take posession on 3rd Sept C301.

Can anyone tell me how many days it has been from arrival before the properties are habitable? was the furniture in and ready ?

regards

Alison

Hi All

Have just added some pictures of Phase C received from Pafilia.  Really coming on now.  We should take delivery beginning of September block C207.  Has anyone taken delivery yet?

Heather

Hi Marilyn,

as we say in Ireland,you played a blinder in keeping us up to date with events and photos.

Thanks for everything

Martin and Fiona

Hi Marylin,

Thankyou so much for the photos and comments.It realy is much appreciated .Hope to buy you a drink soon !!!.

If you are facing block C  my apartment is on the left side elevation top floor.

Did they give any indication when the pool will be ready??

hope you haven't reached melting point, and that everything is going well on your trip.

Regards

Alison

Marylin

Thanks for the new photos, they look great ! I think I spotted ours on the second batch of 6 ( end of row on left and the view of the front door ( front elevation ) but not sure. Ours is F8 in phase C.

They say that in August the temps could be in the 50's !!!!!

Hi Marylin,

Thankyou for the progress photo's!! they look fab. I am coming out in September to take posession of C301 top floor. I hope things are going well for you, and please keep the pics and info coming!!

Many thanks

Alison

Martin

Maybe you are getting confused by the dating of the pictures on the Progress Photos link.

The latest ones are dated July 2006 !!!

Rob