Can anyone help please? I purchased a small apartment in

Hopefully someone can offer better advice on this stressful situation. I hope the payments are recorded as a bank transfer so receipt cannot be denied and some correspondence on what was agreed. If so then can ultimately challenge via notary or failure to provide a receipt but it is best to up the ante without going straight to litigation. Easier done via a face to face meeting. Perhaps list the payments made and the work agreed and highlight what is outstanding. Best of luck and I hope someone can offer better advice.

Thank you so much for your kind response. Yes, all the payments have been paid via bank transfer and there are hundreds of emails, mainly from myself, concerning all the work requests.  They are also all in Italian. I neglected to say that I am in Australia and have not been to Italy since 2019 which makes it that much more stressful because I cannot physically see if there has been any progress and obviously cannot speak to this person face to face.  I have one card up my sleeve in the fact that I made friends with a local who I am thinking of asking to  enter the premises to take detailed photos for me. Luckily he has a key but last time he passed my place there was a lock and chain on the front door. I am going to give him permission to break the lock and will use this to try and push the tradesman to communicate with me on a more detailed level. Wish me luck!

I think its time you set up a blog and told the story of your renovations, (facts only) and give the geometra a link to it, telling him that its 'to help other people buying in the area'.  Once he grasps the fact that he will never work for another foreign buyer, he might do the work he's been paid for.