PROPERTY
Karins dream home recommendations
We last saw Karin 6 months ago when she was knee deep in caos, now her dream home has become reality and she is happy to share her experience and advice.
Embrace the cultural differences you are faced with.
thought processes are very different. I am sure we drove each other crazy at times, however I learned so many interesting things from them, both culturally and building-related, during the construction process. I have rarely met people, let alone builders
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who are as sincere, caring, generous, hardworking and organized as Giordano Giovanni and Antonino (Impresa Giovanni Giordano). I can only highly recommend them to anyone who wants to build or buy a house. All I can tell you is if you see a “for sale” sign with their name on it, check it out because you will not be disappointed. You will be buying a high-quality, well-built home, from some really nice people! And if you’re really lucky, he may even bring you some fresh cannoli from Sicily – scrumptious!
y builders are from Sicily (the South of Italy) and I dare say that our mentalities and
Don’t save in the wrong places So many people don’t want to spend money on a geometra when they buy a house. You hear people saying: “Oh, they are too expensive” or “What a waste of money, I’d rather buy myself that gorgeous hard-wood floor.” But that floor will be completely useless and your money down the drain when water leaks out of some pipe and ruins it because you overlooked something that a geometra would have seen or thought of checking out. Legal costs after- the- fact can be much higher than what you pay for a geometra, and the legal process in Italy is slow, so I’ve heard. I can only recommend to spare yourself the headaches and get yourself a good geometra like I did. Ilario Braconi, followed the building process
from the day we looked at the property, to the present! He was indispensible in so many ways and helped me with much more than just the technical stuff. As a foreigner building a house, it is good to have a highly qualified technician
who also knows the laws and building regulations, as your right-hand man. Ilario is also an expert on ecologically-friendly building, which comes in handy for us foreigners who tend to be more “green” as they say.
Stick with the Real Estate Agent that goes the extra mile & tries to find you what you’re looking for, not sell you want they want you to have. For the longest time there was nothing out there that really caught our eye, so I had to spend hours on end with different real estate agents, searching high and low for the “perfect house”. It was important for me to feel comfortable with the agent and to feel like they understood what we wanted. There were agents that wasted my time, by showing me homes that didn’t fit into our profile. I dropped them quickly and focused on working with Essegi who clearly made an effort to show me what was as close as possible to what I wanted.
STUDIO TECNICO geom. ILARIO BRACONI:
Professional Geometra inscripted at the College of Geometri and a ‘geometri laureati della provincia di Lucca’. Energy consultant for Casaclima with a diploma from Agenzia Klimahaus di Bolzano.
Accredited project technician for Sofiee Veritas in the Lucca area and throughout Tuscany.
• Information and technical assistance for buying and selling property
• Advice for improving your homes energy efficiency
• Project design and management, including on-site assistance
• Valuations and advice for all properties
• Feasibility assessments for restructuring & re-building residential and rustic properties, including advice on materials, methods and prices for works.
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Viale Puccini, Trav 3, N. 25 – Lucca 55100
Assistance in English: +39 3478291207 Assistance in Italian: +39 3476913985 Email address:
ilario.braconi@
email.it
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