I recently purchased a small flat in an

Hi everybody, so sorry but this is not a question that I am posting but an answer to nrivrazz who posted a question about trying to buy a flat in Rome. Sorry!!!

Hi Josie!Saw this was an answer to somebody else's troubled home search in Italy however, could totally relate to your post!! have been living in Liguria for 15 years now and have been searching for a home for half of that time!Between the agents who don't answer emails - or don't even grace their answer with a "Hello", those who don't bother showing up at appointments, the ones who just stop answering after 2 emails or...the agents who still believe they will sell you a house after 1 visit...I am literally thinking of starting a blog!I mean, you have to live it to believe it! Real estate here is out of this world. Bless you for having found your perfect place!!! Gives hope to the rest of us :))Take care.

Yes, I totally feel your pain!! It is quite unbelievable and so different to what we are obviously used to.  I too could write a blog (in fact I have filled a 150 page notebook with my real estate trials and tribulations so I suppose you could say I wrote a book!) but there is light at the end of the tunnel because with a lot of prompting and persistence I purchased my darling little place and finally became the owner in October - so there is hope for you too!

Hello, I'm Milena, I'm Italian and together with my Dutch husband we have a casa vacanze about 20 km. from perugia, in a small village called Pietrafitta, in our place there is an Australian painter, I understood that you are Australian that's why I like to inform youMy email address is milenab63@hotmail.com as I'm not always connected to this community.If you like to discover our area just let me know, we have a Glass Museum and several beautiful places. ciao, ciaoWelcome in Umbria !Milena 

Dear Milena,  thank you so much for your sweet message and your kind offer of information in regards to your beautiful part of Umbria.I also really appreciate the welcome!  We can't wait to be part of it all.

To help you about your renovation of the flat I will need to understand which kind of works you need to do, we have a good company who can renovate houses,internal and external as they built in 2006 our house and renovated our casaleIf you could send me an mail to milenab63@hotmail.com, I will appreciate, I'm not every day on this communityGrazie mille and ready to help you P.S. On 17-2 in a lovely church in our area called GAICHE we will have a concert dedicated to San Valentino, are you joining ? The concert is free, at the end, if you like you can leave a donation.