A BRITISH resident has revealed how he has spent thousands of pounds on legal experts trying to recover two title deeds on properties he bought five years ago.

Danny Tattersall contacted the Voices Newspaper from the UK after reading the plight of couple Fred and Lorraine Toms at the hands of Didim builder Birol Taş, and their bid to get their title deeds despite facing a ‘pay £50,000 or face eviction’ demand.

Mr Tattersall said he’d had similar problems having bought properties from Birol Taş and unable to get the title deeds through his estate agent.

He was forced to seek legal expertise costing more than £2,550, but was then forced into sacking his solicitor because he had a conflict of interest with his involvement with the same builder. The solicitor is apparently under investigation by the Aydin Law Society.

But now Mr Tattersall has been sent a bill from the legal firm over unpaid fees that he HAD paid the original solicitor he sacked – leaving him still without his title deeds and mounting legal costs.

Mr Tattersall said he had bought his first off-plan property in October 2004 for £66,000 and it was built in May 2005. The second one was a resale property and bought in September 2005 for £42,000.

He said: “However, I did not receive the title deeds for either property. I have tried on numerous occasions to obtain the title deeds by contacting the estate agent and the builder but they do not reply my emails.”

But his problems worsened when he brought in a legal team to fight his corner from August 2007 to January 2008. The solicitor, he discovered who was representing him, had a conflict of interest between him and the builder.

He has now instructed new solicitors to fight his corner, but the process has been painfully slow – and the only insult has been a new bill from the first solicitors for fees he says he had paid for their sacked legal expert.

He said: “In the meantime I am still without title deeds on the properties and the expense to me from the legal experts is ever mounting. It makes British people wander what is going on in the buying and legal sectors in Turkey.”