JOURNAL
Notes from running real overseas properties.
Essays on trust, operations and what it actually takes to look after homes people love from two thousand miles away. Written by the Cyprus Happy Life team, not by a content agency.
OPERATIONS · COMING SOON
Chasing a pool leak under the marble
A pool losing water through the wall into the channel, under marble tiles, and not through the overflow where you would look first. The possible fixes, what each one costs to try, and how we plan to work through them without tearing up a terrace on a guess.
TRUST · COMING SOON
Why we refuse to drill into your roof terrace
Owners ask us to bolt pergolas onto rooftop terraces all the time, and we keep saying no. Every hole in that membrane is a place where the first winter storm finds its way into the rooms below, and by then the pergola man is long gone. What we suggest instead.
KEY-HOLDING · COMING SOON
Two pigeons, caught early
What a weekly key-holding visit is actually for: the week two pigeons found a way into an empty house, and what that would have looked like after three months instead of five days.
Until these land, the owner guides are the useful place to start.
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