Whenever you decide to obtain any property in Ukraine or elsewhere you should be very careful while choosing the person, agent or company to cooperate with and rely upon. Since unfortunately nowadays there are a lot of people who are willing to make easy money due to cheating others. Very often one may be trapped into some false transaction and hardly find the way out. There happened plenty such situations accordingly with not happy ends of course but as a result customers lost their money and didn’t get anything they agreed before.

To cite as an example recently one woman inhabiting in the Crimean Coast caught in her trap a citizen of Netherlands who agreed to run joint business with her. Alluding to the fact that according to the Ukrainian legislation a foreigner has no right of registering property on his name the woman offered to register property on her mother’s name claiming that she will sell property and return money whenever it is requested. So the Netherlander agreed to transfer money on woman’s and her relative’s bank accounts. In the period of 2004 – 2005 he transferred currency in the sum which is equivalent to 3,4 million hryvnia (more than 260,000euro and more than 380,000$). Using this money the woman managed to obtain several apartments and a house in Simferopol. She also bought two “Mercedes” registering all needed papers on her mother and relatives.

But this was not where she stopped. Later on this woman dared to offer the Netherlander to obtain some bar in Simferopol. So she got 52,000$ on her account again. Sure thing bar was not bought and the poor foreigner was told the story – “myth” about all money being stolen and disappearance of all documents referring to the previously obtained apartment and house.

In the beginning of 2005 the woman suggested foreigner to purchase a private hotel in Nikolaevka for 150,000. As usual the Netherlander agreed and hurried to transfer the needed sum. In a while he was told that the hotel’s owner broke up the sale-purchase agreement (which in fact was not even concluded) and sure thing he was not returned his money back. So in this way the woman-swindler got about 3,4million hryvnia and legalized money in the way of making operations with property purchase.

So to draw the conclusion we would like to prevent everybody from being involved in such terrible and sad situations, anyone who is going to start some property business, invest money or simply purchase a house. Once you decide to make property investment in Ukraine or you are willing to buy property in Kiev for instance so you should definitely apply to the specialists in this field, experts who will provide you a high-qualified service. These must be professionals ready to satisfy the most demanding tastes of a customer and to supply the client with all important and needed information. Certainly it is a very responsible and serious matter so there must be an individual professional approach accordingly.

Anyway, just be very cautious and careful before starting cooperating and negotiating in order not to lose money and to stay with nothing consequently.