Dear Fellow Expats,We recently purchased a small 13th century house near Arezzo and we are having some renovation done.One of them is heat.
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We own a Villa in Arezzo Italy outside of the town of Rassina. We are looking for a Geometra to help us with our renovation to our property. This professional must speak English & Italian
Sun, 08/07/2011 - 05:14
We own a Villa in outside providence of Arezzo near the towns of Bibbiena & Rassina and looking for professional to manage our property for twelve months of the year. This person must speak English & Italian.
Sun, 08/07/2011 - 04:35
I have a home below the town of Rassina which is in the township of Castel Focognano. I am looking for a local Architect who can also manage the work. Our project is mainly renovation work not restoration. Also this person most speak english.
Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:23
I am looking for a interior decorator or designer for villa which just purchased. In a few month we should be starting work on the exterior. If someone have a name and contact information, I would very appreciative if you could pass it on to us
Sun, 03/27/2011 - 10:01
I am trying to decide on what is the most cost effective way to heat my house.
Sun, 03/13/2011 - 10:01
I am trying to buy home insurance for a property I just purchased in Tuscany. The only insurance companies I can find that will insure properties in Italy are UK based. Its come to my attention that these UK based companies will only insure UK Cit
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 12:28
We will be closing on our property in Tuscany in November 2010. Can someone help answer some questions that we have?
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 12:22
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I have read each discussing on health insurance & applying for residency. I was hoping you maybe able to clear up my confusion. I am applying for a long term stay visa, which I need when I apply for residency, I was informed by the Italian Embassy in NYC that I will need to have with me a copy of proof of my health insurance. They also explained that I must be fully insured so I will not be a burden to the healthcare system while in Italy. MY question is, will my personal insurance be adequate or do I need to purchase Italian insurance to apply? If my personal insurance will work do I have to have it translated into Italian? For my final question, do you know of someone who can assist us in the process. The area that we are going to take residency in is Arezzo. If so my email address is widowmccrea@sprintmail.com. Looking forward to your responses.
Thanks some great Info. I was wondering if you could elaborate on the the heath insurance? We have our own heath insurance from the US. It was my understanding that I need to apply for a resident visa and I needed to show that I have full medical coverage. You mentioned that I need to have Italain health insurance when I apply. I am confused on this point. I was hoping for now, our US coverage would suffice when we apply for residency.?
Thank for responding to out posting. I was hoping you could explain what these two taxes ICI & IVA and as non-residents how do they will apply to us on the purchase of our property and any contract work that we maybe doing . I look forward in hearing from you, Burt
Thank you again for your quick response. This Info will be very helpful, Burt
Thank you for your reply to this matter. If it is not much trouble, could post your clients out come? I hope it is good one. btw, If I may ask, what region is your client trying to get residency? Could you briefly explain why your client was denied residency? Thanks again, this is very helpful.
Hi Penny I know in your blog you mentioned the bank that you use is BNL. Could you tell me if BNL is the actual name of the bank or is it the abbreviation and if so, what is it ?. Do you knowif they have branches in the Arezzo area of Tuscany.
Thank you again for your response & help. I have pasted our last response from our agent, regarding this so call tax penalty. In our last communication with our agent she did confirm that if we are denied with in the 18 month, we would have the pay the difference between the 3% and the 10% of the cadastral value of the property which allot less than the actual purchase price. The difference would come out to 7% plus a 30% fine Plus up to 30% penalty fee of the difference (so in this case of the amount corresponding to the 7%). She also again confirmed her understand of this tax penalty of 10%, this was 10% of the purchase price and not the cadastral value. Now she does admit that this fine is rare and in all her time as a agents she has never heard or know of anyone to be fined this 10% tax penalty. If you have the recourses and time to look into this we would be very appreciative. I look forward in hearing from you, Burt
Thank you again for your response & help. I have pasted our last response from our agent, regarding this so call tax penalty. In our last communication with our agent she did confirm that if we are denied with in the 18 month, we would have the pay the difference between the 3% and the 10% of the cadastral value of the property which allot less than the actual purchase price. The difference would come out to 7% plus a 30% fine Plus up to 30% penalty fee of the difference (so in this case of the amount corresponding to the 7%). She also again confirmed her understand of this tax penalty of 10%, this was 10% of the purchase price and not the cadastral value. Now she does admit that this fine is rare and in all her time as a agents she has never heard or know of anyone to be fined this 10% tax penalty. If you have the recourses and time to look into this we would be very appreciative. I look forward in hearing from you, Burt
Hello - We just purchased a property in Tuscany and are looking forward to our new adventure!