Problem when selling the house: no access road and a biotope present

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Thank you for your detailed description. I think it is a good idea to try to sell the property yourself after the brokerage contract expires, so that you also have a bit more control over the situation and who contacts whom and when. Alternatively, it would be possible to hire a really good broker, but I don’t know if such brokers exist. There is at least one brokerage firm with a high reputation (also internationally active), but I don’t know if this company lives up to its reputation. Perhaps it would be sensible to inform your broker that his contract will not be extended, so that he puts in a bit more effort. After all, there is quite a lot of money at stake for him, too.

80 km away from Munich and such a large property sounds like good sales chances to me (as a layperson), and I am keeping my fingers crossed very firmly.

By the way, the biotope, if it really is one, sounds more like a sales booster to me. My husband and I had the chance to buy a property with a biotope and would have really liked it just because of the biotope.

I will continue to think about whether I can come up with something useful.

Still whining instead of actually checking the facts...

of which only the mayor alone would even know, that is at most on Tuesday evenings on the first channel

Don't be mistaken, our esteemed Mr. Mayor has grabbed farmland and later converted it into building land, including the municipal council, etc. That's already very strange, but somehow still okay. But the fact that this very field was classified as unsuitable during the search for building land 2.5 years earlier and now 40,000 m2 of forest is being cleared for it actually has something of Tuesday evening on the first channel.

It already sounds a bit more structured. Facts regarding the biotope would be appropriate now. Call the relevant authorities and ask what the situation is. Either preferably handle it yourself, or have the broker do it and send you the documents.

I still don't understand the thing with the curb, but it is completely irrelevant. 2 GBit internet is nice, but power outages and undrinkable water put it into perspective. That doesn't deter the buyers either?

This club that wanted to purchase it asked the mayor - although he is not responsible - but he does not want such a project because we have a retirement home in town that they are currently considering due to renovation etc.

Someone wants to build something that Hermännchen doesn't profit from - so Wolfi is blocking it - I tell you, Kaltenthal.

It is a small dump with barely 2000 inhabitants - 80 km from Muc...

I would no longer relate the distance of eighty kilometers from Munich to Munich. Such location references are made in developing countries. Within an 80 km radius there is not even the state capital in Bavaria as the only place that the rest of the world roughly knows where it is. But it gets even better:

We ourselves have therefore never advertised.

Good gracious, throw brains from heaven! - that's exactly what I suspected. So that is the root of the problem.

We didn’t advertise because we already knew that emigrating to Panama in 2020 wouldn’t work since they weren’t letting anyone into the country and it was not foreseeable when they would allow people in again. So why advertise if you couldn’t leave anyway? Panama only made it possible again at the end of October or beginning of November to apply for permanent residence there. We live on the property and would ideally like to sell it in a way that we don’t have to move again, which is not so easy with 2 dogs, 3 cats, and 6 parrots – and especially not if you only want to stay there for 3-4 months until the permanent residence is granted.

We just wanted to wait out the corona mess first before we started dealing with the sale. Then a real estate agent showed up at New Year's with a buyer who wanted to pay the amount we demanded of 300 €/m² and since you can enter Panama again, we booked the agent for half a year. The first buyer didn’t work out – he still wants to, but he’s getting scared off by the mayor, but the second buyer doesn’t want to pay as much because of the nature reserve, but it’s still enough to live in Panama. According to info on Monday, the buyer wants to make a preliminary contract – pay 400,000 € down so that we can buy the property in Panama + pay for relocation, and as soon as we are ready to move, the rest of the sum is due. At the moment, I’m inquiring whether the animals can be relocated to Panama even before the permanent resettlement confirmation – but the person responsible will only be back after Easter. Also, I will only get the remaining papers from the previous owners of the parrots tomorrow – I still have to apply for CITES (they are all bred in captivity from Germany/one animal bred in the Czech Republic) so that the animals can even be taken out of the country.

My husband spoke with the person responsible at the district office on Monday – no problems are known with the driveway – the mayor is known though – the person responsible said the mayor sometimes talks nonsense... My husband will pick up the plans from the district office tomorrow morning to prove to the buyer that the plots are developed...

>I still don’t understand the thing with the curb, but that’s completely irrelevant. No one understands that – but the buyer is naturally initially put off when the mayor babbles that the property is not developed because there is no driveway. Both the lawyer and the district office have confirmed that this is nonsense – but if the buyer wants to see that it is developed, then you just bring the documents and even do the soil test, even though there are no recorded contaminations. Apparently, the buyer has been burned before or is just panicking. Or I’m just naive and listened to the agent back then who said no contaminations, looked at it, felt it was good, and bought it.

Since it’s only 6 km from the town to the highway, I just named Munich as a big city. Small tip: 10 km away Höhneß sat in jail and also THAT Adolf behind bars.

>2 GBit internet is nice, but with power outages and undrinkable water that relativizes the whole thing. That doesn’t scare buyers off either?

It’s not undrinkable – it just doesn’t taste good anymore (but according to the provider it is drinking water) – so far the buyers only looked at the house and property and didn’t want to try the tap water – sorry, but we previously had enormously good quality water (good spring) – now very high in lime and not tasty for sparkling water. We also had to pay a hefty improvement contribution for this... The improvement contribution was due based on what can be built – not on actual development. Regular power outages are quite normal in villages in Bavaria. I had the same before in a small village. Everyone in this village knows that – after 20 minutes of power outage everyone just switches on their generator – then there’s noise everywhere. The only people surprised by this are city dwellers... I already knew the problem in my childhood in Söcking which was incorporated into Starnberg during my childhood. After my childhood/youth which I spent in Starnberg, I lived in surrounding villages – this house is the 5th village and it was always the same everywhere with bad electricity. It was worst in Geltendorf – several hours of power outage – which was not so bad thanks to a generator – but there we had the most broken devices due to fluctuating electricity/power surges – especially power supplies don’t handle that well. Here the fluctuating electricity is better, but there are more frequent outages.

Anyone living elsewhere and only wanting to sell extra properties obviously has it easier than someone who still lives there and has to simultaneously take care of relocation, which is not so easy with animals, especially exotic ones that are on the list of endangered species, than if you only have to move with 2 suitcases without any obligations...

Sorry if anyone here feels this is “whining” – when you don’t understand certain things (this is the first property sale), vent, and look if maybe others in the forum had similar experiences.

I would like to sincerely thank those with useful tips.

I will give an update if I know anything useful and new.