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Would You Like To Buy A Holiday Home In Stoupa, Greece, Without Having To Go Anywhere Near A Bank?

Posted on | August 6, 2009 | Comments Off

Are you sick of paying for expensive package holidays to places you are not sure about and that you hate when you get there?

Tired of staying in impersonal apartments for just two weeks a year that cost more as your family grows?

Do you long to buy a holiday home, somewhere gorgeous, that you can make your own and stay in as long as you like, with as many kids as you like?

Do you despair of being able to ever do that, because of high deposits and your inability to get an overseas mortgage?

Well, you are not alone.  I’m Nicola Cairncross, founder of The Money Gym, and I’ve dreamed of owning a family holiday home in Greece for 20 years now.  I want to be able to go when I want, stay as long as I want, and take my kids, their friends, and as many of my family and friends as I want to. I know that the rental income I could get in high season would cover my own costs, and that, if I was good at marketing my holiday home, I could get a positive cashflow as well, from extra rentals out of high season. But I just could never quite get the 30% minimum deposit together and for various reasons, I knew I would never qualify for an overseas mortgage.

BUT……….now things have changed!  I have teamed up with a long time friend of mine in Stoupa and now I am able to “rent to buy” my ideal holiday home, securing the price today with a tiny deposit, for a purchase in five years time.  I don’t need a mortgage, as I’m buying from the vendor at a reasonable and fixed interest rate.  I’m also buying “below market value” as the developer has deeply discounted the properties, due to the current economic climate.

So I’m able to enjoy my holiday home today, making it my own and staying as long as I like with my family & friends, knowing that I’m benefiting from all the rental income, capital appreciation when the market in Greece recovers and a great, english speaking, full management service in between.

And you can too!

Would you like to find out more about that >>>>>

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  • Monday, the UK, & focusing on x3 projects & looking at the process goals to achieve the outcome goals before adding any "to do's". It helps! #

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Stoupa | Web Design & Websites That Work

Posted on | March 14, 2010 | No Comments

Since I’ve been in Stoupa, due in no small part to the little videos I’ve been posting on YouTube and my blog, people have become aware that I’m a web designer and internet marketer.  The second of those is most important as there is a big difference between “websites that work” and those that don’t.

What Is A Website That Works?

Essentially, a website that works is one that :-

  1. Appears on Page One of Google when your potential visitor, prospect or customer types your most important key phrase into Google (or any other search engine).
  2. Regularly achieves your desired goal, be that more traffic so that you can sell more from your website, more bookings for your holiday home, more customers for your real world business, or the holy grail of marketing, a mailing list of “potential future customers” that have given you permission to market your product or service to them again and again.
  3. You can update and add to yourself, where the hosting and domain name are in your name and under your control.

Most websites are designed by web designers who have a vested interest in you being utterly helpless and having to pay them recurring fees, just to change the slightest little thing on your account.

I dont’ believe in that, as I’m an Internet Marketing Mentor as well, and love to teach people how to use the online tools I set up for them.

What Is Internet Marketing?

Internet Marketing is an ever changing dynamic process by which your website stops being a secret and takes it’s rightful place in the online world.   It’s also the process of binding together your various online presences, such as Facebook, your website, Twitter, MySpace, Linked In (or creating them if you don’t have them yet) and harnessing the amazingly viral power of the web to bring you highly targeted traffic – some of which will be your potential future customers.

If you have a website that is underperforming, or you would like a website that blows away your competition…..

Click here to find out more >>>

(And to find out how to claim your FREE Website MOT Report!)

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  • Broadband working in my Greek house – the internet dream of living/working anywhere in the world comes alive! #

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Stoupa | A Nice Day For A Ramble

Posted on | March 13, 2010 | No Comments

Hmmm, what do you do on a bit of a cloudy (but warm) Saturday in Stoupa? You ramble, that’s what! First a visit to Stella and Tim’s to weigh myself (not good news!) and then off to Neohori up a donkey track through the olive groves. Watch out for my best “chickens” shot yet! Enjoy, as I’m off out now as it’s Saturday night and it’s …………….dinner at Pefko Taverna. But none of that honey cake obviously!

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Stoupa | I Have Broadband!

Posted on | March 11, 2010 | No Comments

So I have broadband! Nearly three weeks to the day, which Judith reminds me is quicker that BT’s effort in Shoreham last time we moved.

It all happened in a flurry of activity yesterday morning, Elias being so exasperated that we had done everything and it still didn’t seem to be working, he called the “damages” section at Cosmote, and then tracked down his wife’s brother’s cousin who apparently immediately looked into it. I was thinking that pesky olive grove fire had done more damage than they had first anticipated but no! Something was turned on or fixed over at the exchange in Ag Nic and lo and behold, broadband!

Elias was at my house on the phone to “Damages” and looking at the router and the magical green light came on! O! he was so excited bless him, he jumped in his truck (Yes, I largely travel by flatbed truck nowadays LOL) and came to get me to take me back to my house where I stayed for the rest of the day working before taking a couple of bottles of Cava down to his taverna to celebrate (as promised).

Why has it made such a differnce, having broadband here rather than working from Elias’ office?

Well, apart from the creature comforts of having water, coffee, lunch etc right to hand, I found that the constant distractions of people popping in to look for Elias, to use the computers, etc. was stopping me from really getting stuck into anything.

And when I woke up at nights, unable to sleep I was unable just to walk upstairs and do something useful with those extra, unwanted hours. Talking of which, I slept right through last night!

So now, I’m sitting in my dressing gown, brewing coffee, looking out of the window at my wet balcony, wondering if there was enough rain to wash the Sahara sand out of the clouds, for us to get some sun.

I’m also watching the webcam pics on Zorbas Travel Agency website, and noticing that the one on the left seems to be updating every 3 seconds or so, giving the impression that’s it a totally live feed. I can see the waves moving and cars going past!

What do you think? I’ll have to check out the camboard to see if it’s been upgraded. Yep! that found of all knowledge confirms it has and I managed to capture two funny pics off it earlier.

Stoupa | Zorbas Webcam BinmanStoupa | Zorbas Webcam ElectricianBit of a worry for those working in Stoupa as these pics could be used to prove they are doing what they should (or otherwise LOL).

Workwise, I feel rejuvinated, but first, my online VAT return! I’m definately turning this one over to my accountant from now on.

Every day, I use a Neil Asher originated “Focus Sheet” which I have adapted for my own use, to focus on the big stuff first, to remind me why I do what I do (the big picture) to keep my focus to just three main projects, to keep my “to do” list to under 10 things per day and to list the websites that I need to post on for one of my private projects.

I sit and fill it in every day, STARTING with the top right hand section. You can download it here and adapt it for yourself if you like. Let me know if it helps you?

Hey, just as I finish, the sun’s come out! Hurrah!

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Stoupa | A Monday Of Business Wins

Posted on | March 10, 2010 | No Comments

An upbeat edition of Stoupa Stories for you today; After a fairly sleepless night Sunday night due to VERY high winds, I overslept rather and was awoken by Elias’ truck arriving along with the man from Cosmote (a cousin of Stella H’s brother, I think).

He was bellowing up over the balcony “Nicola, did the phone line work now?”

The line that got burnt by the olive grove fire has been replaced………..Yes! Yes! I have a telephone. Great excitement so I called the kids on the bus to school in England to let them know, and to test the line.

Then I jumped in the shower, and Elias, Stella from the office, and Jimmis came and got me to go to Kalamata to:

1. Get the router, a username and password, so that when the broadband signal comes in (2-3 days now the telephone is working) Roger can come and configure it.

2. Meet the Kalamata lawyer that Elias knows of, who speaks excellent English and works with the British Embassy, to see if she “gets” the concept of “rent 2 own” and can apply it to Greek law and work for our buyers.

Kalamata Main Square, GreeceShe was in court most of the day, so after a rather “Carry On” style visit to Germanas, the shop where we booked the Cosmote contract, we whiled away the spare hours till 4pm, by having a nice lunch at Elias’ favourite cafe in Kalamata main square.

Yes we were a little hampered by my having left my mobile (which was out of credit anyway) at home, my not having written my number down in my trusty notebook, Elias having written it on his hand (but he’s washed it since then) and the lady in the shop not being able to trace it anywhere and telling us that the number we had memorised was not the right one.

I visited an internet cafe to contact someone in England, to whom I had emailed the number, while Elias rang his long-suffering wife Stella to go to the office where we knew it was written on a bit of paper by the fax machine.

The low tech method won (sorry, Stella, no offence!) and we got the number which WAS the one we had memorised, and the lady in the shop tracked us down, gave us a WIRELESS router – woop! woop! The balcony here I come!

Then onto a great meeting with Matina, who got the “rent 2 own / option to buy” concept immediately and we rocked on back to Stoupa in high old spirits, not at all phased by Elias’ squealing wheels as we went round the bends (something to do with the hot tyres and the hot tarmac, he assures us).

A bit of a dull evening, due to the high winds bringing sand from the sahara, which needs a good drop of rain to wash out of the atmosphere……….but that is forecast for this evening. I hope it’s a lot of rain, or I’ll be washing sand off everything again.

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Stoupa Road Trip With Rogue Horses

Posted on | March 6, 2010 | No Comments

You may know that I’m working from my beloved Stouapa in the Mani Peninsula at the moment. As well as my usual online / internet marketing mentoring activities I’m working on a property deal in Stoupa at the moment that will enable people to buy their dream holiday home on a “rent 2 own” basis. Find out more about that at www.StoupaProperty.com >

All work and no play and all that………….so I took some time off to go on a little roadtrip with fellow Stoupa devotee David and we headed to Agios Nikon on the road to Itilo before going back to Agios Nikolaos for lunch.

However, our gentle little road trip nearly turned to disaster when we met some stray horses loose on the road…..

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