Hi there. I am living in Terni/Arrone

Hi Gabriella,what you say is almost unbelievable. Have you checked, if by chance, your e-mail address, is registered in some blacklist, and your e-mails end up in the recipients' spam boxes? , can you explain what your customers are looking for? I understand that in the community, there are some owners who are looking for buyers.

Interepreting what you wrote, I guess you are asking agents to show you properties that you want to look at fon behalf of other people?   Most agents wil ldeal with a client, not someone who wants to check out properties for others. 

Gabriella ,It is however probable that, few agencies, are willing to have to share their commission with you, if you do not have the documents in order to act as a real estate agent - They, in accordance with Italian law, to pay you, should make a transfer money to your current account, without even a supporting invoice. At the first check of the tax office, they, first, and you, later, will be charged with tax evasion and they will lose the licenses.

I am not an agent in Italy - I just want a house to live in asap. But obviously the buyers will come and inspect a shortlist of houses, which I can't even get to view at this stage.

I can't understand, you're looking for a house to live, and then you talk about shoppers who Would come to see the house--do you want to rent a house and then sell it?

 I started off looking for property to rent, but due to the lack of agent interest, spoke to my family (thousands of miles away). They will buy and I will rent. 

That is, they buy the house and you rent it from them? ,yes, here , pratically eveyone types from a few miles away, it's a normal thing in communities 

Yes. So, how do I get your contact details so they can eMail you directly?

from > http://www.lifeinitaly.it./Form/Modulo_ugo.htm

Thanks, I will pass it on. 

I totally get your frustration because I too came across this situation multiple times when I was in the quest to buy a place.  Forget trying to communicate via email unless you get someone to do it for you in Italian. The same with going into an agency.  Make sure you are accompanied by a friend who speaks fluent Italian.  Approach the agency with a specific property or properties that you wish to see. If they let you get past this first step, have your friend communicate the facts and that you are desperate to get a property which your relatives will be purchasing and that you will be living in. Once they understand the situation and that you (or your relatives) are serious in looking and buying a place, this might change the situation.  If they are still not interested it is probably because they are not used to dealing with foreigners and look upon the whole selling to non-Italians as too difficult a process.

I'm sorry but what is your actual situation in Italy?  Have you recently moved there? Are you by yourself? Are you a student?  How long do you wish to live in Italy? Would it not be less complicated to just rent a place for the time that you are there? When I said that you should take a friend with you to the agency I meant a personal friend, a friend that I thought you might already have.  I didn't mean that you should make friends so that you can talk business.  If you were to clarify your situation this might make it easier for someone in the forum to give you the correct advice for your situation.

I can also help, without doing business, but I can not put my email address on the forum pages, I already have the mail full of spam, go in search of other spam, it would be a suicide

So .. this is to prevent spammers - form ask name, surname , contacts coordinates , address , city , postal code , country - and is writted in english - if you do not have this info , about you ... - you surely are a spammer , collecting  a email adresses