Wasn't sure what I was expecting for the first year of renting - but I'm happy we got some visitors - and happy there weren't too many.
It's odd to have people staying in the house that you view as your new home. Each time the property management company (PMC) send the monthly photo's - the house looks different .. where's the tablecloth gone? Why are there cushions out on the roof deck? When I left the house last September, after a 2 week visit - it was staged better than a West End play! I stupidly thought that it was stay looking the same... wonder if the PMC can follow a photo script and put it back how I left it?
I'm glad we invested in a gardener. It's starting to look like a country garden again. One of the first things we fell in love with was the split level garden - the previous owner loved her garden and watered it with lots of love - and it flourished. But then we bought it - and didn't pay it any attention for 6 months. When we went back to Turkey, to complete the Tapu - it looked like a jungle. The neighbours were great - they lent me a pick axe to plough through the weeds - but were very animated when I left the poppies untouched. "Hayir.. Hayir" -- I come from Norfolk UK - Red poppies are my fave - I was torn between keeping a little bit of England in my garden - and appeasing my neighbours ... the neighbours won.
