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as long as the French car is not a historic Citroen 2 horses vans (to be kept like a gold bar!), the Italian bureaucracy and costs will make you want to change the license plates, or you will become a new San Cristoforo ( patron saint of motorists, in Italy)....

Hi JCStop, stop everything!Under Italian law, you can not take a bathroom with access from the kitchen - but you need to create a room to divide the kitchen from the bathroom - or any other room that is not a bedroom - this room, in technical terms, is call <antibagno> .For my experience  ( Non-Italian's mortgage broker - from 20 years ) , when the costs of the house to buy begin to grow, after an agreement has been made on the price, it means that it is time to change - home to buy and real estate agent (he all these news  , knew them even before agreeing ..)Also, you can not connect the bathroom drains, with the kitchen drains.So it will be necessary to build a new drainage pipe for the bathroom, and if the house is old,believe me, the cost of sanitary furnishings will be totally negligible (around 1000 euros) and their implementation (around 3000 euros with the pipes), compared to the creation of a new drainage pipe inside the ancient walls, in addition, of course, to a new sewage pit <fossa imoff> that between purchase and installation, will cost around 3000 euros 

 Ciao linmuir ,Unlike most of those who answered you, I am Italian, and I deal with banks and real estate purchasesSo I tend to see the bureaucratic implications of your purchase, rather than the poetic sideAs Italian, I strongly advise against buying a house whether it is part of a group, or connected to other houses, and especially with direct access to the SP, you will have endless bureaucratic problems and building permits in the restoration.Regarding the current situation of habitability of the house, this is definitely your last problem, having to carry out a structural restoration, and of installations, the surveyor or architect who will submit the building requests to the municipality, will have no problem at all change the destination of the rooms, from warehouse, closet, to housing.Rather, if your problem is a possible resale, I suggest you look for a house surrounded by a small garden, perhaps of fairly recent construction, which has at least the structural part, roofs, attics and external walls, in good condition , considers that redoing an interior ceiling, costs much less than the reconstruction of a roof, say around 30%.Last note, if they told you that the restore is 100 - you consider 150 - when working on old houses, you always know the starting point, and NEVER, the arrival one .Maybe, removing a plaster, you will find an ancient arch ... HOO as it is beautiful, maybe you can open on the next room? ... here, from now on all your spending project ... will start to growI wish a happy life in Italy

Regarding point 1 - for open a bank account you need the italian tax number = codice fiscale - if you already do not have request it , at an italian consulate in usa - at yr's arrival in Italy - go to an Italian tax office , with copy of passport , and the address of your living home  ( maybe they provided you from army ) and ask it - The office issue the Codice Fiscale , immediately - IMPORTANT NOTICE > the Tax office clerk , in Italy  , difficulty undestand the english - if you do not are in condition on spoke italian , carry with you , an interpreter  .

you can't pay bill , at post office iban - but only you can make money trasfert on your's bank account to the postoffice , almost 10 days before bill pay day ( and for this necesity the iban of YOUR POSTOFFICE BANK ACCOUNT ) ! - If the Bill payday, is expired , you has to connect to the web page of your's service provider (water, electricity, gas), ask for a copy of the invoices, and the IBAN, for payment - then send directly to each supplier, the payment of bills, by bank transfer, from your bank in uk.

http://www.fi.camcom.gov.it/la-procedura-semplificata-lo-scioglimento-delle-srl

Normally, the unwritten law is valid, according to which, the lower the purchase price, the lower the services and therefore the commercial attractiveness of the property -Abruzzo is a beautiful territory, however, if you exclude locations on the sea, the whole interior is suitable for people with a good spirit of autonomy, their own means of transport, perhaps lovers of peace - all over Italy, both countryside, that centers less than 200,000 inhabitants, suffers from this problem, public transport services are insufficient, or even missing. On the other hand, the quality of life will certainly be better than that which one can enjoy in medium-large sized cities.

Ciao, musclesnmorsels

From your description, it seems that you are in the American military, transferred to an American or born base, you speak of Marina, therefore, it is likely that your destinations are one of the following Naples, Gaeta (Campania region) - Livorno (Regione Toscana), Maddalena (Sardinia Region), Sigonella (Sicily Region) - As far as I know, from clients I had, with situations similar to yours - The Bases are all well equipped and quite autonomous, compared to Italy - The four regions, are far from them, they have life costs, real estate purchase and above all logistics, extremely different - from a point of view of interaction with Italian life, certainly Tuscany and Campania, offer more attractions –

For the transport of your things, which you think you can not carry in your suitcase, one of the best carriers from the USA, for Italy, it is otherwise UPS - in Italy it has a very good organization, almost completely autonomous, only rarely it is used to SDA (Italian Post) –

For the car, if you use a property of the navy base, you have no problems to circulate in Italy, If you want to buy one, you must have a residence in Italy and the relative tax code
(codice fiscale ) , if you are an employee of a foreign company (army uses) - you will need an Elective Residence - otherwise, your employer Italian or non-Italian company but with a valid tax organization in Italy, will provide, will provide a residence for work in Italy - in both cases of residence in Italy - you must have a house or apartment where you live, or rent, or purchase - without housing YOU CAN NOT HAVE THE RESIDENCE - WITHOUT RESIDENCE NON YOU CAN BUY A CAR.

More info , about residence , taxes, and more , here > http://www.lifeinitaly.it/Inglese/italyresidenceguide.htm

Some info (photos) about Turistic Italy , here > http://www.lifeinitaly.it/italiasegreta/Italia_Segreta.htm

as Italian, I wish you a good Italy ..

So , if you have problem  in having Italian bank accont from your's contry , without go o Italy , i can provide it to you ! , need only Copy of Passport and an apostilled  proxy , to provide Codice Fiscale, Bank account , Italian Phone card  - and one working wek - I make it , for all my clients , from several years .

hm , at my knowing ,to  ING Direct  Agents in Italy , do not are allowed  , give bank accont to not italian , outside they's italian offices -