by Gasman » Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:42 pm
Dunno about rundown. But I am sure a lot of this prime seafront property is worth much more than what the inhabitants of it left behind in the North (where property prices are peanuts).
Correct Deniz. Built on TC land, like most other apartments here. I could show you hundreds of TC properties in a worse state than that one with the fence! All being lived in by GCs with Mercs parked outside and foreign maids waiting on them. It is hard to believe that some are inhabited as they look fit to be condemned. Then you see a light go on or someone hanging washing out. Easier way to tell is when they raise a Greek flag over some crumbling hovel on one the 'Greek' public holidays!
Some of the worst eyesores (Steptoe's junkyard style) belong to GCs who own lucrative businesses along the seafront. It ain't lack of funds that stops them slapping a coat of paint on after 30 yrs or so, making good a wall where they've smashed it down to park another car, or putting in a new pane of glass, or whatever. I can only think it is a deep seated hatred of the REAL owner of the property and them not wanting to spend a cent on it.
Just recently they've been 'clearing' all the TC land that hasn't been built on nearby. No idea why. They have cleared all the scrub and top growth and taken away all the ancient artefacts (old fridge freezers etc) that were dumped on it. It was interesting to then be able to clearly see the foundations where houses had been and in some cases the connections for utilities still there.
I doubt anyone who hadn't seen some of the neighbourhood for 30 odd years would even be able to remember what was where back then, you can still see where the old pavements were and the roads ran but they've been moved, replaced and/or built on.
But all the old TC town property from the Piale Pashia waterfront extending back to about 2 roads is still there. There seems to have been a rush of doing some of them up recently. Some still have the rusting vehicles parked in the yard next to them where they were left all those years ago.
