The crucial passage is the paragraph that contains the due date of the purchase price. If the seller has developed, surveyed, numbered, and cleared your plot of land and informs the notary of this, and the notary then requests payment from you, then that is okay. Because then, after payment, you will become the owner of a defined, surveyed, developed piece of land through registration at the court. That is how it must be; then it does not matter to you whether the guy is sitting in Liechtenstein or Obervolta. Discuss this with the notary. And one more thing. You are the buyer, you pay the notary, so you also choose him. Clear? Do not accept his. Whoever pays the piper calls the tune. Karsten