Buy property in Italy with your eyes open.

I learned these lessons so you don't have to.

My husband Chris and I bought a property outside Ostuni, Puglia, with a plan, a budget, and every intention of doing this properly. We hired the people we were told to hire. We signed the contracts.

What followed was one of the most expensive educations I've ever had. A contractor who disappeared mid-project. A budget that shattered. A house that had to be completely rebuilt — at a cost that bore no resemblance to what we'd planned.

We lost a staggering amount of money that we couldn't afford to lose. We almost let it defeat us. We didn't. We rebuilt the farmhouse, finished the dream, and moved in. And then I built the app I wish I'd had from day one.

Every checklist, every warning, every pattern in DolceRight comes from something we learned the hard way on that journey. None of it needed to happen.

The professionals who actually know what they're doing.

Finding trustworthy professionals in Italy is one of the hardest parts of any property journey. The DolceRight Professionals Directory solves that — and it's available exclusively inside the app.

"One of the most expensive mistakes you can make is hiring a professional on a recommendation from your agent."

The DolceRight Directory exists because independent, vetted professionals aren't easy to find — and the wrong one at the wrong stage of a transaction is how things go badly, expensively wrong.

We built this because we needed it and it didn't exist. Every listing earned its place.

The knowledge most buyers acquire through expensive experience.

DolceRight gives you this going in — not after the compromesso is signed.

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Go deeper. The full story, the full system.

The DolceRight app is your field guide. The book is the education behind it — the full context, the real stories, and the deeper patterns that every foreign buyer needs to understand before they start.

The Unwritten Rules of Buying Property in Italy takes you through every stage of the Italian property journey — how listings work, how agents work, what legal compliance actually means, how negotiations behave differently, and why what you own and what you control are not always the same thing.

It's written from the inside — by someone who went through the full experience, made expensive mistakes, rebuilt a farmhouse in Puglia against all odds, and came back with a very clear picture of what you need to know and when you need to know it.

• 📱 Read on any device — Kindle app is free for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac & PC
• 📖 Chapters on listings, agents, legal stages, negotiations, costs & incentives
• ✍️ Jan's full personal story — the purchase, the disaster, the rebuild, the home