Bulgaria: Behind the facade

[bulgarianlawyer]

People who come in Bulgaria to buy should know that the decisions that matter are taken behind the façade. This is like this in every sphere of life. In politics those who are in front of the TV cameras voting in the parliament, and those who decide what to vote for are different persons. In business those that are named as owners of a company or a property and those who actually own it are different persons. There’s even an expression about it which meaning is hard to translate into English precisely because it represents a concept alien to the western mind: ‘на кого се води’. Each word is easy to translate and yet to convey the real meaning would take volumes. Ultimately it would take understanding Bulgaria in depth. Unfortunately it’s not the western world where responsibilities are clear cut and the sooner this is understood by those who buy here the sooner they could discontinue this vicious system that does not work in their advantage. WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH THE REAL ESTATES? The middlemen (who are wrongly called agents as there is no such thing in Bulgaria) take the legal decisions that matter (such as whether a security to be used or not) using their tame lawyers. That’s why they recommend lawyers. Thus they can control the process. And they need to control it so that it’s fast and easy going or else they will be paid latter or never. One person signs (the lawyer) and another person takes the decisions (the middleman).

All this is at the bottom of most horror stories.

[Woodman]

......sounds like a wealth of personal experiance has gone into that post....
believe me when I say that everything is not as simple as it sounds in the UK, possibly explaining why a lot of brits are emigrating, thousands every year to many locations worldwide (including of course Bulgaria)

[bulgarianlawyer]

Everything is more complicate than it seems according to the Murphy's law. And in Bulgaria even more so.

[Woodman]

Everything is more complicate than it seems according to the Murphy's law. And in Bulgaria even more so.

A lot of the percieved problems are due to the traditions of 'other' countries, what I mean by that is what you or I consider totally normal in our own country an outsider would see as excessively complicated or beaurocratic, simply because they havn't had that situation in their own culture. Simply put accept we are all different.