IDIPS - agents and investors - can we discuss?

Sunny Days · #1 08-07-2007, 09:08 AM

Hello All,

I'm looking for some thought provoking responses here (please!).....
I am an agent / developer in Turkey.
I have been considering the IDIP - but in my case I think I need 2 accredditations (one as a developer and one as an agent). Urghh! This is gonna get VERY costly and I'm not at all convinced of the benefits.....

We already carry out a platinum class service for our clients / investors (in my opinion!...and that of our happy customers). We are a licenced estate agent and we use solicitors for all foreign buyers (Turkish customers don't usually want a solicitor). Being licensed estate agents means that the licensed individuals are qualified to carry out conveyancing and as an extra security blanket for our foreign buyers they have a solicitor of their own to do the work (again) for them....

So here, comes my point.....
what does the IDIP offer an agent or a developer (apart from a very expensive badge)...can anyone shed some light please?
I am of the impression that foreign buyers don't seem to know anything about IDIP (hopefully, I'm wrong), hence if we go in for the scheme it isn't going to re-assure any buyers if they don't know what it is.....

I am considering IDIP as I believe it will become important to overseas buyers as the UK press and victims of property scoundrels continue to tell the bad news stories, back in the UK (and elsewhere). I want my organisation to be recognised as better than the average operators in my area and there will come a point in time where the average buyer will be saying the IDIP name as he considers an overseas purchase....until then...any views on joining the scheme....?

Is it just "money for the boys"?...
All the figures I've seen to date are in UK pounds - therefore is the product Anglo-centric?
Are there no variations in charges, in line with currency values? ie the UK pound is a lot stronger than a lot of the currencies this product is marketing at....
Will my organisation benefit from handing over several thousand pounds for a wee little logo??
Views from non-agents and non-developers would be welcome...

Hope to get some feedback from you soon.
Thanks.
Sunny Days

Sunny Days · #2 18-07-2007, 01:29 PM

Hello - anyone out there?
My colleagues in Turkey are usually most vocal on this site when promoting their own product. Why is everyone so quiet now?

TH4S · #3 18-07-2007, 01:47 PM

Hello sundays,
One did address this issue,To Nick marr,

Both here in the forum and via a pm,Have yet to receive a reply,!

1,
What is the full cost of a overseas agent/ agency to join the Association of International Property Professionals,!

2,
What would the agent/ agency get for it's money,!

3,
Who is going to do these 'checks on new developments; before they are even offered to the buying public,!

4,
What is the cost to the genaral public for this,information pack,

İf this IDIP is a way forward to stop people from being stung or ripped of by the,( bad) developer's, i am all for it,

İf its another little certificate/ banner,to put on my web site,thats going to cost me a lot of money forget it,

I will continue to check all the new developers myself prior to advertising there property's,and check the legal owners tapu( deeds)then and then only will i pass new developers to my uk agent's,

A recent survey carried out here in Turkiye,stated if you use a good solicitor they will also carry out all checks on new developments,

http://www.totallyproperty.com/buyin...html#post10342

Sunny Days · #4 21-07-2007, 08:52 AM

Is Nick Marr the Homesgofast man?
I emailed Homesgofast for more specific details (lots of nitty gritty questions) and all I got back was a referral to the original documentation that had made me ask the questions in the first place.
I'm suspecting it's an expensive badge as, like yourselves, we do the checks in the first place AND all our non-Turkish customers use solicitors. (Turkish customers don't want a solicitor usually as they understand the training and skills that the licensed estate agents have). I can't see what it offers us......but I'd like to hear a convincing argument to the contrary. I'd like to hear the views of any UK based investors....

PS I came across the EEAU this week (European Estate Agents Union, I think). They only allow one constructor / agent in any one area....to try and keep their members head and shoulders above the competition....so I looked up who, if anyone, was the member for this area of Turkey, in case my organisation might be able to "badge up" and low and behold ....it was the constructor / agent who we hear nothing of but horror stories from their unhappy customers - not on their quality of build, no complaints heard there but on their ability to overcharge for every "service" that they provide (which any decent agent would just do as a part of the service) ; their ability to convince clients to buy lots of unnecessaries (at over inflated prices) and their quoting for new roofs when a new tile was needed in both cases (which we fixed for free to help the people out but they'd both been quoted over 900 GBP for a new very small roof).....ie maybe they're OK when the client is buying but as soon as they've signed on that dotted line.....kerching!!....this badge / accrediation thing....it get's me....(sorry for the rant).....

TH4S · #5 23-07-2007, 11:16 AM

Thread continued here,

http://www.totallyproperty.com/newre...uote=1&p=10761