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Thank you all for your participation and interest! What a great couple of meetings and your positive energy! It was good to see so many familiar faces and to meet-up. Thanks for showing up 🙏 this is highly appreciated! I want to pull the key takeaways together in one place, so we're all on the same page about where the project stands, what's coming next, the decisions that matter most over the next few weeks, and where to find the recordings and materials → so you have all in one place to your convincience.
Recordings
Both meetings are available below for your reference.
Both meetings on Friday and Saturday were very pleasant, and we hope also genuinely useful for you. They gave us a good opportunity to walk through the current project stage, upcoming decisions, practical owner questions, and the next steps in a more connected way.
If there are details you would like to revisit, please use the recordings below and come back to us with any questions or points you would like to clarify further.
Welcome: Dobrina, Fit-Out Coordinator
Your main point of contact for fit-out questions and choices.
We are very happy to welcome Dobrina to the Mons Orbelus team as our fit-out coordinator. She is your main point of contact for questions about categories, upgrade options, and B3 Assisted Sourcing logistics. If you are unsure about anything relating to your apartment fit-out, please write to her first.
Two Things Worth Keeping in Mind
If you are coming to Bansko or Bulgaria and expect to sign documents now or later, please make sure to leave a Power of Attorney with a lawyer or a person of trust while you are here. It makes future deed signings and legal steps much simpler — and saves a separate trip.
Uwe can organise a practical round table on Bulgarian tax residency, personal taxes, and what relocating to Bulgaria actually looks like — if there is enough interest or need for it.
No formal registration needed. Just drop a message in the WhatsApp group or contact Uwe directly.
Project Timeline and What It Means
The interior delivery phase is now underway — owner decisions are time-sensitive.
- Exterior stage largely completed
- Interior execution phase now underway
- Owner decisions now directly affect coordination, sequencing, and cost
- First deed processes can begin for owners who are ready
- Act 16 / habitation approval indicated for around mid-July
Electrical changes, floor heating, AC planning, and bathroom choices.
Kitchen-related requirements, and deed / Power of Attorney timing.
👉 Spreadsheet for submitting changes: cloud.mystartbulgaria.com/s/to2Db9kkZBcp9rf
- Vertical planning and surrounding groundworks
- Interior wall plastering begins and continues into mid-July
- Main coordination window for owner-specific technical requests
- Floor heating requests should be submitted by end of June
- Good moment to arrange Power of Attorney when visiting Bansko
- First deed signings can begin from mid-June for owners who are ready
June is the key planning and alignment phase before the next construction layers move forward. This is the best time to finalise electrical changes, socket and switch positions, internet cabling, and heating layouts before plastering and later finishing works advance.
- Cement floor levelling across apartments
- Floor heating preparation and installation
- Tiling begins and runs into August
- Wall painting begins and may continue into mid-August
- Late technical changes become harder and more expensive
- Cable repositioning and apartment-specific electrical work continue in sequence
July is the shift from planning into execution. Once levelling, heating, tiling, and painting move through the apartments, there is much less flexibility for late changes.
- Bathroom installation phase
- Roof checks and any required repairs
- Continued tiling and interior finishing progress
- Temporary electricity expected in this phase or around late summer
- Initial practical power availability in the range of roughly 100–150 kW
This period is especially important for bathrooms and practical infrastructure. It is the right time to think in concrete terms about tiles, fixtures, sockets, shower logic, and toilet preferences.
- Doors installation
- Laminate flooring
- Kitchen installation begins
- Earlier technical decisions should already be settled
October is where earlier planning starts becoming visible in the finished product. The clearer the decisions made in June and July, the more smoothly this stage moves.
- Kitchens move toward completion
- Furniture installation / completion
- Corridor finishes and common-area materials become visible
- Interior package comes together in a much more tangible way
By November, the focus is no longer on introducing new requests, but on seeing earlier choices come together. Apartments should feel much closer to their final form.
Indicative Pricing Referenced in the Meetings
| Item | Indicative Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Floor heating (per m²) | EUR 70 / m² | Provider still to be finalised |
| AC — single LG unit | EUR 900 | Including installation |
| AC — splitter (2 indoor, 1 outdoor) | EUR 2,300 | Including installation |
| Extra electrical line | EUR 20 / cable | AC-related electrical preparation |
| Kitchen (size-dependent) | EUR 3,500 – 5,500 | Plus appliances; current prices may be 20–40% higher than last year |
| Bathroom upgrades (selected) | EUR 350 – 400 | For selected improvements |
| Floating toilet (owner-sourced) | EUR 300 – 800 | Depending on choice |
These figures are indicative meeting references, not final quotations. Updated supplier offers and clearer package options will follow in several areas. Where an owner selects an alternative to a standard included item, the cost may reflect the deduction of the standard item — meaning the owner pays the difference, not the full standalone amount. Please confirm case by case.
What Changes Cost and Why
Supporting owner-specific changes during construction — with a clear cost structure.
One important point from the meetings is that we are continuing to support owner-specific changes and upgrades during construction, even though this is already more flexible than what many developers would normally allow at this stage. The intention is to help you shape your apartment now, rather than forcing you to undo finished work later.
At the same time, changes during live construction do come at a cost. The builder is helping with changes and upgrades, but cannot keep delaying approved works indefinitely while multiple teams are moving across this and other projects. Every additional request also creates coordination work across planning, communication, registration, builder handover, payment handling, delivery, installation follow-up, and owner updates.
EUR 20 for each additional wire for a switch or socket
EUR 10 for moving an existing point
Minimum EUR 20 handling charge for individual change requests requiring up to one hour of coordination
Extra bathroom sockets for hairdryers or toothbrush chargers are covered by the project team at our expense, as these were not included in the initial drawings.
The goal here is not to discourage improvements, but to make sure that useful changes happen at the right moment, in a feasible way, and with a realistic understanding of cost and impact. We want to stay flexible where it helps you, while also keeping the project moving well for everyone.
Fit-Out Overview: orbelusbansko.com/…/owners-fitout-choices.html
👉 Spreadsheet for choosing and submitting changes: cloud.mystartbulgaria.com/s/to2Db9kkZBcp9rf
In Person Meetups in Bansko
Visiting in June or July? There are good reasons to come.
We are planning a community dinner or hike for after BanskoNomadFest. If you have ideas, want to help organise, or have other meetup suggestions, the WhatsApp group is the right place to share them — we would love to hear from you.
We're now entering the phase where the decisions we make together really count. The clearer you are about your preferences right now, the smoother everything flows — less rework, better results, and strong momentum across the whole building.
Our goal is to keep this process as useful and transparent as possible — and above all, to make sure it works for you. We're building something here, not just as a project, but as a community — and that part genuinely excites us. 🙏
Thank you, as always, for your trust in this project. See you soon!
Mons Orbelus · Bansko, Bulgaria · Owner Meeting May 2026
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